Manchester landlords 'failing tenants on waste'

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Landlords in Manchester have been urged to provide tenants with better information about their new homes when they move in, it has been revealed.

Tenants at residential lettings in Fallowfield claim that landlords have failed to explain waste collection to them properly.

According to councillor Alison Firth, landlords responsible for these lettings often don't provide adequate information or facilities for tenants to deal with their rubbish.

She told the South Manchester Reporter: "Some landlords don’t tell the residents when the bin collection day is or don’t provide enough receptacles.

"I spoke to some students the other day who said they didn’t even have a bin and had just been putting their rubbish in the alleyway because they didn’t know what to do."

Meanwhile, chair of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, councillor Neil Swannick, recently criticised government proposals to introduce joint waste authorities.

He told Let's Recycle the proposals could have adverse impacts on the operational accountability offered under the current arrangement.

"Political accountability at the moment for collection is at a local level, put it in another tier and that accountability is, to some extent, lost," he explained.

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