Moldgreen mum’s desperate bin appeal

Jun 12 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Moldgreen mum’s desperate bin appeal

DAWN Ashwell is dead keen on recycling.

So much so that even her young children know which bins to put their empty yoghurt pots into.

She has two green recycling bins which are always full.

But with three young children – two still in nappies – she struggles to fit the household waste in one grey bin.

And she was shocked to be told by Kirklees Council that she could not have another one – even for a few months until one of her children grows out of nappies.

For Mrs Ashwell, 29, of Moldgreen, it means bin bags full of dirty nappies sitting on top of her bin for two weeks at a time.

Now she and husband Wayne are calling for struggling parents to be given a new wheelie bin on a temporary basis.

The mother of Caitlin, seven, Zachary, three and Hollie, 18 months, she said: “I am struggling, I usually have an extra few bags which can’t fit into the grey bin.

“I once left them on top tightly fastened but the bin men picked them off and left them behind.

“It means I have bags of dirty nappies sitting in my bins for more than two weeks which I find disgusting.

“It’s not as if I don’t recycle – I have two green bins and they are always full.

“If they came to collect my grey bin every week like they used to I wouldn’t have a problem.”

Mrs Ashwell recycles everything she can from plastic to food packaging, paper and yoghurt pots.

She added: “It only takes a few minutes to go through it and I’m quite keen that it should be done.

“Even the children know which bins to put things into.