Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Environment bosses have been urged to start getting tough over contaminated recycling bins as they confessed a new system for tackling the issue had "taken a back seat".Councillor James MacLaren accused council chiefs of failing to collect overflowing bins if they found they were contaminated, as he claimed some were ignored "forever more" at this week's meeting of the environment board.The Tory man questioned why bins were no longer being tagged if they had incorrect materials in them.Operations and infrastructure boss Gavin Hutton admitted the system had been put to one side due to the coronavirus crisis but said it was being done on a "small scale".
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