Liverpool residents forced to drag their rubbish to the end of the alleyways may have an easier job in future, the council's bins chief has hinted.
James Noakes revealed some of the changes to collections that might happen at a neighbourhoods select committee yesterday.
A major effort is underway to improve conditions in Liverpool's decrepit alleyways .
The poor conditions in some of the alleys have meant rats have found it easier to nest - and an increasing number of council refuse collectors have suffered injuries from falls while trying to collect rubbish.
The council announced last year that it would start a three year program to improve conditions .
Cllr Noakes, cabinet member for transport, highways and streetscene, suggested last night that the way rubbish is collected could also be altered.
He said: "We are looking to start to change the way that we collect bins in the city.
"Certainly in those nine foot alleyways what we will be aiming to do is pick up bins from outside people's homes and not from the end of the alleyway, and we hope that will encourage people to take more responsibility for their bins."
Currently people living in areas of terraced housing in the city who have wheelie bins have to take their rubbish to a collection point.
And a further 22,000 properties in the city don't have any wheelie bin collections at all because the alleys they back on to are so narrow they can't accommodate them.
These residents currently have black bin bag collections and have to store the waste in the alley or their yard.
