I have complained for 18months to Andrew Gwynne, to no avail, about the state of the alley way at the back of where I live through binmen not collecting rubbish properly, that lead to identity theft. I've now got a collection of other peoples bin bags at the side of my gate stinking, that the bin men won't remove. When i've contacted Streetscene to have them removed they said the report back was Nil. I have photo's to prove the bags have been there for 2 months now. Think they need a trip to specsavers. And, if people were good neighbours, they would take your black bag in for you! Also, we do the majority of the work for them, and if they didn't collect and leave them in a pile on the end of the street for 2-3hours there would be less chance of liiter and fraud. What do we pay Council Tax for?? Come on SMBC- "Safer, Cleaner, Stonger, Greener" Don't make me laugh!!!

   Any comments, Ann?

   An excellent idea - avoids having to retrieve soggy bags from all over the garden/street etc, and better for security - bags still visisble after a few days could indicate an empty house. This latter point should have been picked up before by Neighbourhood Watch and the Community police.

   i've not been given a wheelie bin in any of three property's i've lived in in the last 3 years? [as if moving 3 times in 3 yrs through no choice of my own wasn't stressfull enough, now i have to worry about the rubbish i generate?] Even getting a recycling box out of the council is near impossible! & i do most of the recycling independently, i'm sure more people would if it was on their doorstep. Bin bags should be bought by the person filling them, as said previously, otherwise they just end up on the road blowing around. I understand why they have to be of a certain quality, so sell them with the council name, at a reasonable price,no reason why the local supermarkets cant sell them? Bearing in mind it's still more environmentally friendly to cut out the plastic & give us all re-usable wheelie bins? probably cheaper than giving us all enough binbags for a year!

   It is an excellent idea. Avoids mess and marking your house as unoccupied if you are not there to collect the bags from the drive, hedge, gate etc. where the operatives, who once put the bags by the bins, now leave them.

   Ann Coffey! not heard much from her since she got elected.

   Funny this, i asked Ann Coffy to speak out against the Isreali attack on Lebanon and she didn't think it worthwhile. Shame she has found her voice for what seems like a sensible idea! Is it getting near election time, Ann!?!

   What a great idea to save money, perhaps the Councillors could use the cash WE save to give themselves another pay rise.

   Jeff, good job you are now in canada.. couldnt you cope here in stockport...

stick your maple leaf where the sun dont shine !

   All Canadians place their garbage at the curbside on garbage pickup day. They also buy their own garbage bags. What the hell is wrong with the Brits? Too stupid to look after their welfare? Jeff. Expat.

   Bin liners what are they?? I've sometimes retreived the 'odd' one from the street, from the arrogant collectors who throw them at the front doors and scarper across the gardens. Anyway ¿¿1 million for wheelie bins, someone from the SMBC thought the green wheelie bins for the borough was worthwile, so why not these??, come on councillors safer,clean Stockport - my A***!!

   Perhaps Anne Coffey thinks this idea "a recipe for disaster" because the management of a roll of bin liners is beyond her! I think this is a very sensible idea and will not lead to any problems whatsoever. Perhaps if the Council made their own, printed, bin liners available for sale at Libraries etc, there would be a profit to the ratepayers instead of the supermarkets. I buy bin liners now anyway, and I'd rather see the Council have the profits from them than anyone else.