From a dartboard and a litter box, to a chair and a stroller. Just some stuff that was dumped this weekend next to underground waste containers in Den Bosch. And that must be over, local politicians now also believe. One possible solution: installing cameras.
It is the order of the day in the Bossche districts of Hambaken, Rompert and Kruiskamp, among others: large mountains of waste that are dumped on the street next to the underground containers. This is especially the case near shopping centers. The containers there are soon overcrowded and so people dump their rubbish next to it.
It is especially important after the weekend, says a man. “Then it’s a huge mess. At all containers in the city, by the way. You can set the clock by it. Why? Because people might be too lazy to take it elsewhere.”
“Sometimes there are even entire windows at the bottle bank.”
A little further on, a fellow townsman thinks the same. “It’s outrageous. Probably some stuff doesn’t fit in the containers and then they just throw it there. Then they just lost it. Sometimes there are even entire windows at the glass bank. And then children walk by. I object to that.”
If it is up to the local party FOR Den Bosch, a solution will soon be found for the ‘anti-social behaviour’. Party chairman Joep Gersjes would like to install cameras at the containers. In this way, the municipality can see who dumps which items, after which enforcers can hand out fines. In addition, Gersjes thinks that in many cases the cameras can prevent people from dumping their belongings.
If the cameras were installed, Den Bosch would not be the first city to take this approach. For example, in the spring of 2018, Tilburg was faced with the same waste nuisance. According to a spokesperson for the municipality, complete couches were even dumped. When stickers, warning signs and extra checks failed to help, cameras were installed as a last resort.
“This problem is only getting worse.”
A year later it did not come to that in Breda. There, too, there were calls for strict measures against the dumping, but according to the board, placing cameras would be too great an invasion of the privacy of residents. In addition, the problem could only move to waste containers where there are no cameras.
Whether the council of Den Bosch likes Gersjes’s proposal remains to be seen in the near future. He himself prefers to see action today rather than tomorrow. “This problem is only getting worse. It’s about time this was put to an end.”
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