AROUND 150 bags of rubbish and other items have been piling up outside a block of flats in Flintshire. 

An image shared on social media by Connah's Quay councillor Dave Richardson on Monday shows waste piling up in the Cedar Court area of the town. 

There are thought to be around 150 bags of rubbish in the pile, and Connah's Quay residents have described it as a "disgrace", "terrible" and "absolutely disgusting". 

Flintshire County Council has said its waste and recycling team was unable to access bin stores over the weekend due to fly-tipped items of rubbish. 

Chief officer for Streetscene and Transportation, Katie Wilby, said: “Waste and recycling collections are carried out on a Saturday at Cedar Court; however, last Saturday when the collection crew attended the area, they were unable to access the bin stores because of the amount of fly tipped waste. A supervisor attended the site and has arranged for the dumped waste to be cleared away and for the bins to be emptied, which should be completed by Tuesday afternoon.

“I would urge residents not to pile waste outside the bin store areas and to recycle as much of their waste as possible to prevent this from happening again in the future, which they can do either through their kerbside recycling collections or by taking items to the nearest household recycling centre.".

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She added: "Leaving waste and bags on the ground at the bin stores might seem reasonable and like the right place for collection, but unfortunately it encourages others to do the same, which in turn leads to other types of waste being fly tipped and makes it impossible for our crews to undertake the routine household collections.

"People may not be aware that what they are doing is fly tipping, which takes a significant amount of staff time and resource to investigate and clear away, resulting in lost time for other important public services, as well as unnecessary costs.”

Fly-tipping has been an issue in the Connah's Quay area for a number of years, and Cllr Richardson said last week two fixed penalty notices were issued to people found to have been guilty of it.