Council staff are reporting that casual workers – some apparently on the notorious zero hours contracts – have been brought in to reduce the backlog in waste bin emptying.
Precisely what such an action will have on the Councils hopes for expenditure reductions in this activity area remains to be seen.
The Council publishes lists of those bins not emptied on its web site each day. Click this link http://www.york.gov.uk/info/200184/recycling_rubbish_and_waste