A mind-bending bin day choice confronts residents of this historic city street every week as they decide how to sort their rubbish into up to 13 different bags, boxes and containers.
The recycling roulette has to be tackled by people living in Caledonia Place, a lovely row of fine Georgian houses in the Clifton area of Bristol.
Every Thursday the tree-lined avenue becomes a sea of different plastic containers and bins as residents attempt to navigate the environmental demands of their local council.
Retired business owner Marion Westwood, 86, said 13 containers was in danger of going too far.
She said: “It’s ridiculous, where’s it going to end? We are very good, our rubbish goes in all the right containers and I take some to a recycling skip at the church.”
Despite the demands on her time, Marion stoically said despite thirteen being “a lot” she supposed she “will get used to it”.
The Mail Online reports other residents are not so willing to abide by more than a dozen demands and say the number of containers on the street is an eyesore.
NHS Clinical services manager Lesley Leadbeater, 63, told the paper: “It’s become an eyesore every week, it can look a real mess and blights the area.
“I take things like plastic and batteries to the Co-op to be recycled, it helps keep my weekly rubbish down.”
Another resident Joanne Wilson, 49, said the storage of the containers and bins when they were not on the street was also a “nightmare”.
She told The Sun: “We either put them in the basement or in the hallway, but it absolutely stinks in the hallway now.”
In September Rishi Sunak scrapped plans that would have seen all councils issue homeowners with a standard seven bins for their waste.
But legislation is still in place that will require local authorities to issue a minimum of three types of bin.
Posting on X in September the Prime Minister wrote: “We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you, the British people.
“We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050.”