A RESIDENT has raised concerns about the amount of rubbish building up between bin collections- although the council said if more recycling took place- there wouldn't be a problem.

Kevin Williams lives at River View in Putson, Hereford and said since the weekly bin collections for general rubbish changed from weekly to fortnightly, the bins have been overflowing.

He said: "They are full after a week- when the weather starts to get warmer it will be a haven for rats."

There are three 660 litre bins for general rubbish for each block of six flats at River View.

A spokesman for Herefordshire Council said: "This is nearly double the size of the standard black waste bin supplied to households which are 180 litres and still larger than the higher capacity black waste bins (240 Litres) we can supply if requested by household.

"As we wish to encourage more recycling and less waste we are currently working with Herefordshire housing to put in place more recycling and work with the residents to promote this and other forms of waste disposal such as composting. If residents can be encouraged to recycle they shouldn’t have any problems with overflowing bins."