Glasgow streets strewn with filth as bin lorry staff in tech row with bosses

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Glasgow’s rubbish ­collection service is a dirty mess. There is an industrial dispute brewing over the introduction of a hi-tech admin system run by bin lorry drivers.And a pilot scheme to change the way rubbish is collected is already in difficulty.

Council drivers now have to use a tablet computer to record any problems and issues on their route as they manoeuvre their 20-ton trucks through narrow streets.A problem over how this works in practice has caused serious tension between unions and management.Plus a trial scheme that moves bins from back courts to “hubs” – rows of bins on the street – is attracting so much extra litter that the union says they have to be emptied daily.GMB leader Chris Mitchell says the new hubs, in Pollokshields, mean other areas are losing out.

They are meant to have refuse collected every four days and recycling every eight days. But he claims they have become a magnet for so much trash that this schedule is not enough.He said: “The new hubs have to be cleared every day.

If they have to be emptied every day, they are not working. The drivers can type in on their tablet there’s a bin missing but there’s no one on the other side to do anything about it.”He added: “It doesn’t matter how much technology we have, technology doesn’t empty the bins and sweep the streets.”What about the rubbish that is not in bins?