[Margaret Pilkington]

The funding for litter bins is already there.
Of course there needs to be someone to do the surveillance and the issuing of penalties, but why can this not be done 'in house'.....why does it need to be a contracted company?
All a contracted company wants to do is make a profit....they have no real interest in ensuring that the streets are clean....and they will concentrate on the town centre and everywhere else can go hang.

The place where my mother lived was frequently littered with beer cans, fast food containers(some still containing the remains of a kebab....encouraging vermin) and other detritus.
This was rarely cleaned up by council operatives, but I am sure if enforcement officers were employed they would have little or no impact on residential areas where litter is a blight.