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How do I stop seagulls from ripping my open bin bags?

“A very simple measure we have found works well is to cover bags with a blanket or sheet.”

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Tired of seagulls ripping open your bin bags? One Welsh council has a solution - just cover them with a blanket. When Rhyl residents complained about the mess seagulls were making of their rubbish the council told them there was little it could do and encouraged them to cover their bins with a blanket or sheet. Kinmel Bay resident Georgina Ford was disgusted by rubbish spread over the streets of the town and posted photos to social media.

'It's not a sight you want to see'

“Disgusted at the view I was greeted with by driving through Rhyl this morning! Denbighshire Council when will you learn? Seagulls + binbags = a total mess," she said. Dozens of people responded to the thread with mixed opinions about the birds. Georgina said: “It was mainly just the state of the rubbish everywhere that got me. “For anyone coming into Rhyl, it’s not a sight you want to see. “I understand seagulls are just looking for food and we live in a seaside town so it’s expected, but surely the council should know this and put something in place to deter the seagulls from getting the bins.” They wrote: “We’re aware of problems with seagulls in Rhyl, where they are ripping into bin bags and making a real mess of the streets.

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“We know it’s a problem but it remains one that is incredibly difficult to resolve - in reality, we can only mitigate against the problems caused by them. “They are wild birds so we aren’t able to do anything about them except to try and encourage property owners to try to stop them nesting, using spikes or mesh. “Pest control is not a statutory duty and Denbighshire does not have a pest control department, but our public realm staff continue to work hard to keep things manageable.

'We give wheely bins to everyone we can'

“We have issued wheely bins to every property that we think can (sensibly) take them. “Those without the wheely bins may live in properties that are terraced, with frontage direct onto the pavement, little or no backyard due to extensions or possibly extremely narrow access to rear if access is there at all. “Again, to try and mitigate the problem, we send our street cleaning teams to follow the bin men round immediately afterwards, so within an hour or so the streets are back to normal.” They added: “Elwy Street and Kinmel Street are difficult areas because they are not suitable for wheely bins. Containment is key, so on-street bins are really the only realistic option here. “What we have been doing is to issue residents with white dumpy sacks in problematic areas (people put their black bags inside the dumpy sacks to prevent the gulls getting at them). “This works quite well but it appears not everybody that we have issued these to uses them. “We are rolling out to the north section of River Street next week and we have also surveyed Windsor Street on food waste collections -this looks promising and we expect to be adding that on next week too. “A very simple measure we have found works well is to cover bags with a blanket or sheet.”

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