'Drive-through' bins damaged two days after being installed

The bins were found damaged only 24 hours after being fitted
Highways England
Jessica Morgan28 September 2017

'Drive-through' bins at a motorway service station have been damaged within two days of being installed.

The giant funnel bins were designed so drivers can throw their rubbish out of the car without leaving their vehicle.

Highways England introduced the initiative to keep the motorways clean after more than 40,000 sacks of litter were collected in the north-west of England last year.

But the containers at the M6 Lymm Services, Cheshire, on Tuesday were found damaged only 24 hours after being fitted.

Site manager Jason Vance said three of the four bins were damaged by vehicles trying to get out because the exit route had been narrowed due to the bins' location.

It was found that the window-height bins were poking out into the road making it harder for lorries to drive past.

Mr Vance told the BBC: "I think wagons hit the bins possibly with their wing mirrors or trailers."

More than 20 service across the north-west of England are due to have the bins fitted after the 10-week trial on the M3 at Winchester proved to reduce motorway litter by 25 per cent.

Clean Up Britain however previously branded the projected as a "low-cost gimmick".

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