Recycling: Welsh homes have the most bins in the UK

Residents in Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, had mixed views on the effectiveness of the multiple bins system.

Keziah Jones, 35, said she was unhappy with the situation, adding: “We had bags before, which were much more practical, because I could keep them in my kitchen cupboards. These are so ugly.”

She said while a trolley was provided to help stack the containers, “you can’t get replacements anymore and they break quite a lot in the wind”.

Ms Jones said she had no choice but to permanently keep the bins right outside her front door.

“I couldn’t drag all that through the house myself, our kitchen is on the second level,” she said.

“My grandmother also lives on this street, and these [bins] are so unmanageable. She can’t pull that trolley around, it’s a nightmare for the elderly.”

She added the bins could be “dangerous” as they blocked the pavements.

“When my little boy was younger and I had him in a buggy, I had to go out into the road,” she said.

Stephen Pegler, 68, said sorting the items was “not a big deal”, but added: “There are so many rumours about recycling, because we see them unloading… What annoys me is we are going to the bother of sorting it and then they’re just all going in the same place.”