Information for Landlords

The Problem

Every year, thousands of student households move between properties or away from Leeds over the same couple of weeks at the end of June/start of July when housing contracts end.
The residential areas, around the universities, suffer from a massive amount of rubbish and chaos on the streets during this time which contributes to bad feeling between the student population and more permanent residents.
The environment also suffers as a vast quantity of useful stuff ends up in landfill sites when students throw it out when they move home.

Leave Leeds Tidy is here to help!

The Leave Leeds Tidy project's aim is to, through providing information, advice and services, reduce the impact of student change-over on the local community where students live, whilst also reducing the amount of useful items going to landfill.

What landlords can do to help...

Please help to re-enforce the Leave Leeds Tidy message by promoting the services on offer to tenants, and by using the services yourselves so the streets are left clean.

1. Get involved with Green Streets
Green Streets is a volunteering project run by Leeds students to reduce the amount of re-usable items going to landfill.

• Encourage tenants to use the collection bags. Green Streets will be delivering special red bags to every house in the change-over zones (see map) at the beginning of June. 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 tel: 0113 380 1329.


• Donate items to Green Streets. Use the red bags and leave them out for collection, or drop items off at the Leeds University Union building - this can only be done by appointment. To utilise this service, please call in advance on tel: 0113 380 1329. This service will be on offer from Monday 8th June until Friday 17th July. If there is no one available to take your call, please leave a message as voicemail will be checking regularly.

Please use the Change-Over Map and the timetable on the Green Streets page for information about collection dates and locations, and what items Greens Streets will collect.

2. Get rid of waste early! Please encourage tenants to start getting rid of their waste as early as possible. There are many ways for waste disposal:

• 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 find the information at www.leeds.gov.uk/recycling.
  Tenants should be reminded that Leeds City Council's Environmental Action team can and will fine all residents of a property if they fail to put their bins back in after collection.


• 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, and plastics. Please see information about recycling points on our 'Services' page about how to dispose of glass appropriately. The Environmental Action Team can and will issue fines for green bins left on the street between collections.

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.

For information on services and how to get rid of waste and unwanted items, see our 'Services' page.