Do you have unwanted or broken plastic caddies loitering outside the front of your home or gathering dirt in your garden? Not sure what to do with them? Then the Great Splott Caddy Amnesty is for you!
On the 4th of April, staff from Cardiff Council will be travelling the streets of Splott, Tremorfa and Pengam Green collecting broken and unwanted food, glass and sanitary caddies (the brown, blue and yellow ones).
Splott was a trial area for blue glass caddies and the old style plastic containers were left with residents when the new recycling scheme (with different shape and size caddies) was rolled out Cardiff-wide.
Likewise with the brown food caddies (the design was changed after a trial period). This created a lot of ‘bin furniture’ littering our pavements and many caddies have been left battered and broken and being used as street bins, getting filled with all sorts of nasties. These are not collected as part of the weekly waste collections and end up creating fly-tipping hotspots.
Keep Splott Tidy pointed this out at a meeting in February with members of Cardiff Council’s Cleansing and Love Where You Live teams. As a result, an event was organised to deal with the problem.
If you want any of your caddies to be removed, please leave them outside your home before 9am on the morning of Friday the 4th of April and they will be taken away and recycled.
If you would like to find out more about this, pop to the Keep Splott Tidy litter pick on Saturday the 29th of March between 10am and 12noon (the meeting place is Horwood Close, opposite the old Moorland Pub off Moorland Road (next to the train lines).