A landlord is calling on the council to put more bins in place as her tenants are faced with a “revolting” mess.
Renée Hepburn, 62, owns a flat in Dudhope Street. Until last year, each flat in the block had its own bins but they were replaced with communal Eurobins.
Mrs Hepburn said since then, there have been issues caused by a lack of space for all of the people who live in the building.
Detritus is being left lying on the ground beside the bins, and this is not getting uplifted.
Mattress and other furniture have also been left lying around, also going uncollected.
A council spokesman said the local authority will look into the situation.
The bins are near the busy Hilltown West Car Park, which Mrs Hepburn said paints a bad picture of the city to visitors.
She said: “I don’t expect my tenants to have to walk past this mess every day.
“It’s five minutes from the city centre and eight minutes from the V&A and this is the real Dundee.
“A lot of visitors will use that car park and I often think what impression it must give to them. People are paying money to park there and have to see this mess. It’s revolting.”
The landlord has owned the flat for more than a decade, saying the area was “much nicer” when she first bought it.
Mrs Hepburn described the overfilling bins as an ongoing problem and has contacted the council on numerous occasions about it.
She added: “I emailed the council pictures of the mess in May, and to be fair to them they cleared it up that time.
“But then more rubbish was left by the bins so I contacted the council again in June, but I haven’t heard anything back.
“I also emailed them to say there needs to be more bins here for the amount of people living in the area as most of the flats have HMO licences so there is a lot of students in the block, but they never got back to me about that either.”
Mrs Hepburn takes on the responsibility of paying the council tax for the property.
“I paid them about £1,000 in March for the year, so it’s a shame we are paying them for nothing.”
A Dundee City Council spokesman said: “We are looking into this matter further.
“If there is a shortfall of bins, we will arrange to get them delivered.
“We would encourage residents to use the full range of recycling bins available to them in separate bins to cut down on the amount of general waste.”
