Scheduled maintenance
We are carrying out scheduled maintenance of warrington.gov.uk this week. Some pages, content or the site may not be available for a short time, you may need to check again later.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
Bin strikes are taking place until 24 December.
A fifth period of strike action is taking place from Tuesday 5 December to Sunday 24 December.
We are sorry about the continued disruption for our residents and businesses.
Street cleaning and litter picking of items such as cigarette butts, crisp packets, tin cans, chocolate wrappers, newspapers and fast food cartons take place throughout the year on our streets and within parks and play areas.
We litter pick as part of a schedule in highly used areas, such as shopping centres. During the spring and summer months, we litter pick public open spaces so that we can safely cut the grass. The town centre has its own maintenance team which operates on a different cleaning schedule.
It's a criminal offence to drop any materials associated with smoking, drinking, eating or anything else onto roads and streets. This includes dropping or throwing litter onto private land and land covered by water. The same applies to dropping litter from a vehicle.
Could the rubbish you've seen be fly-tipping or an overflowing bin?
Fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of larger 'rubbish' items - from a single bin bag to a sofa or any other large bulky item.
This is a bin which is full and rubbish has been left around it. You can report a bin like this to us online.
If the fly-tipping is on private land or land owned by housing associations, supermarkets or car parks we are unable to remove it. The owner of the land would need to do this and you should contact them. You can search who owns a piece of land or property by visiting gov.uk