The recent introduction of wheelie bins and associated change to a two week rubbish collection cycle has seen a dramatic increase in fly-tipping of household waste around the borough of Ealing. While the wheelie bins provide residents living in houses with a place to store their waste outside their home, no equivalent solution has been put in place for residents living in flats that don't have front gardens. When their bin fills up, they have nowhere outside their homes to put the rubbish. 

Making matters worse, bins may not be stored permanently on the street, so residents of flats simply cannot put their rubbish in an outside location. Yet this is not an insurmountable problem - for example: communal household waste storage systems exist in many countries where people live in flats, and these can be an effective and sanitary solution to the problem of fly-tipping.

We the undersigned call upon Ealing Council to take the necessary action to work together with Ealing's residents living in flats that cannot currently have wheelie bins, and develop a better system of storing household waste in a safe and sanitary manner until it can be collected.