Information for Landlords

The Problem

Every year thousands of students move between houses or away from Leeds over the same couple of weeks, at the end of June and start of July, when housing contracts end. As a result of this big move, residential areas around the universities suffer from a massive amount of rubbish on the streets - this causes bad feeling between the student population and more permanent residents. The environment also suffers as a lot of useful stuff ends up in landfill sites.

Leave Leeds Tidy is here to help!

Leave Leeds Tidy will be providing information and advice to help students and other residents move house, whilst reducing the impact on the local community and amount of useful items going to landfill.

What landlords can do to help...

Landlords are a very important part of the Leave Leeds Tidy project. As a landlord, you can encourage your tenants to start packing early, recycle properly, and leave their reusable unwanted items with Green Streets to Leave Leeds Tidy.
Remember that as a landlord, if a property that you let is left in a mess, the responsibility to clean it up becomes yours. Stop this from happening and encourage your students to start early and use their checklist (that we have provided on here on our website on the 'Info for Students in Private Accommodation' page). Here are some things you can do to help Leave Leeds Tidy:

1. Get involved with Green Streets
Green Streets is a student-led volunteering project that aims to reduce the amount of unwanted, reusable items that are going to landfill.

• Encourage tenants to use the collection bags. Green Streets will be delivering red collection bags to every house in the shaded area of the Changeover Map. These can be filled with items Green Streets collect and need to be left out on the morning of the collection days. Please encourage your tenants to use these. If tenants need more bags they should contact Green Streets on 0113 380 1329.


• Donate items to Green Streets. You can donate items to Green Streets in the same way, using the red collection bags on collection days. Alternatively, you can drop items off at Leeds University Union by appointment. Call 0113 380 1329 to arrange when you will be dropping off items. Take a look at the Green Streets page for more information on what you can give to Green Streets, when collection days will be and what else you can do to help.

2. Get rid of waste early! Please encourage tenants to start getting rid of their waste as early as possible. Remind them that the following services are available for them to use:

• Black bins. It is important tenants are aware that black bins are emptied weekly, and that they are responsible for putting bins out and bringing them back in. If tenants are unsure of what day to put their bins out, they can check Bin Collection Day to find out. Tenants should also be reminded that they can be fined for leaving their bins out.
  
  Top tip: Why not give your tenants a roll of black bin bags and fill in this new tenants black bin template to tell your current and new tenants when their bins are collected and help them get started with their packing and clearing.


• Green Bins. These are collected fortnightly and sometimes on different days to black bins. Please remind tenants they cannot put glass in green bins. They can, however, recycle paper, cardboard, metal cans, aerosol cans and plastics. Information on recycling points can be found on the Services page.
  
  Top tip: If tenants are leaving before bin day and they would like one of the Changeover Wardens to put out their bins and put them back after, they can book this service by calling 0113 380 1329. They need to paint the number of their property onto the bins in advance.