By public litter bin I mean a bin provided by the council for the public to put their rubbish in, on the street/park etc.

1. How many public litter bins has your council provided for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024?
Council provides 1,326 within its parks and Highways for the public to use this figure has not changed between 2020 and 2024

2. How often have each of your public bins been emptied for each of the years, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024?
The bins are emptied 2,652 times per week x 52 weeks = 137,904 times per year

3. How many complaints have you received related to public litter bins for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024? And if possible, broken down by topic of complaint e.g. not enough bins, overflowing bins.
• 2020
Damaged bin: 19
Missing bin: 7
Not emptied bin: 31
Overflowing bin: 206
Total 263
• 2021
Damaged bin: 35
Missing bin: 36
Not emptied bin: 50
Overflowing bin: 367
Total 488
• 2022
Damaged bin: 18
Missing bin: 6
Not emptied bin: 13
Overflowing bin: 117
Total 154
• 2023
Damaged bin: 24
Missing bin: 62
Not emptied bin: 47
Overflowing bin: 403
Total 536
• 2024
Damaged bin: 28
Missing bin: 17
Not emptied bin: 24
Overflowing bin: 224
Total 293

4. What was the cost to your council to provide, maintain, and empty public bins for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024?
The cost to the Council was £212,188.36 for year 2020, £222,188.36 in 2021, £231,075.89 in 2022, £244,940.44 in 2023 and £254,738.05 in 2024