'USE it or lose it!' is the no-nonsense message from a councillor ahead of a new pop-up tip being trialled this Saturday (March 18). 

Councillor Jill Desayrah has campaigned for the mobile tips to come to Warndon and Brickfields to stop rubbish being dumped in the street including mouldy mattresses, sofas, chairs and other waste.

The first mobile tip service goes ahead between 8am and noon at the car park in Rodborough Close, Warndon in the hope it will help stop fly-tipping.

Cllr Desayrah said: "I hope that many people will find these pop-up tips useful. 

"They are here on a trial basis, but I'd love them to become a regular facility in Warndon."

People can bring along items they can carry such as clothe and small items of wood and carpet.

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The service does not include electrical items or fridges/freezers, fluorescent tubes, batteries, cooking oil, household and garden chemicals, paint, used engine oil, tyres, textiles, plasterboard, books, foil, TVs and monitors, printer cartridges, hardcore and rubble, mobile phones, tapes and discs.

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Her hope is the move can restore pride in the community, making Warndon a nice place for people, rather than scurrying rodents, to inhabit.

In a new trial scheme, she has asked Worcester City Council to bring the tip to residents so they do not have to go to the tip, especially as many may struggle to afford the costs.

The Warndon Labour councillor has reported several instances of fly-tipping across her ward to various bodies including Platform Housing Group and Citizen and hopes residents will take advantage of the trial scheme.

The second will run in Goldsmith Road, near Wheelwright Close, on Saturday, April 8.

It comes as flytipped rubbish continues to be dumped in various parts of Warndon.

We reported in January how rubbish was dumped in Selsey Close, Chedworth Drive, Cirencester Close, Crowle Court and Wheelwright Close.

Cllr Desayrah said: "Flytipping in certain parts of Warndon is a problem.

"Some of this comes from outside the area, as unscrupulous tradespeople dump their waste illegally alongside other tipped rubbish.

"Sometimes it comes from a genuine misunderstanding that the city council run regular, free collection services.

"Even where people would like to do the right thing, many of them don’t have access to transport to get items to Bilford Road recycling centre or can’t afford the council‘s paid for bulky waste collection service.

"The wider effect is to create streets that are a blight on the community and the people that live there cannot take pride in their neighbourhood. Worse still residents have reported to me cases of vermin infestation."