Street furniture
According to Wikipedia, street furniture is a collective term for objects and pieces of equipment installed on streets and roads for various purposes. It includes benches, traffic barriers, bollards, post boxes, phone boxes, streetlamps, traffic lights, traffic signs, bus stops, tram stops, taxi stands, public lavatories, fountains, watering troughs, memorials, public sculptures, and waste receptacles.
The communal refuse bin in the picture above is street furniture, the office chairs lazily left beside it are not; they are fly-tipping.
Tackling fly-tipping, litter and waste in some parts of Bristol can seem at times like nailing fog to the wall and the fly-tipping shown above has been notified to Bristol City Council via Twitter and complete with the #tidybs5 hashtag (posts passim).
Besides Twitter, fly-tipping can be reported to the city council by:
- using the dedicated fly-tipping report form (also has a mobile version that works on smartphones);
- a third party smartphone app, such as My Council (which is available for both Android and iOS; and
- telephoning 0117 922 2100.
The most direct reporting route is using the fly-tipping form as the report is sent directly to the department concerned, whereas the other methods require the report to be forwarded.