Number of missed North Ayrshire bin collections unveiled as thousands complain

Stewart McConnell

4 July 2024 at 6:37 am·1-min read

The lid has been lifted on the number of missed brown brown collections in North Ayrshire in 2023-24.

This followed a question from Councillor Donald Reid at the full council meeting last Wednesday.

Each year North Ayrshire Council collects around 54m bins of which 1,740,000 are brown bins.

A breakdown of the missed brown bin collections, on a ward-by-ward basis for 2023/24 equates to less than 0.2 per cent.

Garnock Valley tops the charts with 504 complaints over bins not lifted, while there were 439 in Saltcoats and Stevenston.

There were 388 in Kilwinning, 370 in Irvine East and 365 in Irvine South.

Irvine West saw 309 missed and the total for Ardrossan was 302.

The lowest total was North Coast with 275, while Arran does not have a brown bin collection owing to an island exemption.

This makes up a total of 2,953.

Cllr Tony Gurney, Cabinet member for Green Environment and the Economy said: “In bsome cases, bin runs are not a particularly helpful measure simply because in some cases the amount of presentation can be very low.

“As you can imagine, grey bins are pretty much every week for every household and during winter the presentation of brown bins is around 20 per cent.

“So whether a run is missed it doesn’t necessarily mean that thousands of bins are missed, it could just be one or two and that is what is reflected in those figures.”

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