"The wardens will offer advice to people and challenge those who are dropping litter, allowing their dogs to make a mess or causing graffiti. I am confident that their presence on Derby’s streets will be a deterrent to anyone thinking of committing such acts"
Councillor Alan Graves, Cabinet Member for Leisure and Direct Services at Derby
The two city centre wardens will encourage people not to drop litter, including cigarette ends and chewing gum, and to clean up after their dogs.
They will also approach businesses to help them reduce the litter their customers drop. The wardens will encouraging bars and businesses to deal with littering outside their premises such as cigarette ends, and chewing gum. Cigarette ends are expected to increase outside bars following the introduction of the smoking regulations.
An important priority will be to educate people on litter and help reduce the 6,000 tonnes of material dropped on the streets of Derby each year.
The wardens will have the power to fine people £50 rising to £75 if the fine is not paid within 10 days.
Headcams - a technique used by wardens in the City of Gloucester (photo courtesy of Gloucester Council)
People shopping and working in the town centre are understood to have welcomed the new wardens and the work that they will undertake.
Councillor Alan Graves, Cabinet Member for Leisure and Direct Services, said:
“The wardens will offer advice to people and challenge those who are dropping litter, allowing their dogs to make a mess or causing graffiti. I am confident that their presence on Derby’s streets will be a deterrent to anyone thinking of committing such acts.”
Recycle for Derby
The Council says that the Recycle for Derby scheme has also been further expanded this week which involves residents putting tins, glass and plastic bottles in a blue bin, food, garden waste and cardboard in a brown bin, newspapers, magazines and junk mail in one bag and textiles in another bag. Non-recyclable refuse will be put in the existing black wheeled bins, which will be emptied on alternate weeks to the recycling containers.
Exhibitions about the scheme were held in these areas last month by Derby Council.
This leaves only the Austin Estate, some inner city areas, properties built since the scheme started in April 2003 and properties with difficult layouts, like flats, to join the scheme in future.
Councillor Graves, said:
“The last couple of years have shown just how committed the Council is to helping people who are keen to recycle. I am extremely pleased about our progress, and the recycling team has learnt from each roll-out of new streets. That is why we have newly designed information packs that are easy to understand and answer the questions people most commonly ask. We have also changed the name of the scheme to Recycle for Derby, highlighting the achievements of Derby citizens, as an exemplar for other councils in Britain."