HOBART city streets and parks are set to lose 100 public rubbish bins in a bid to save money.
Hobart City Council's infrastructure committee has recommended their removal in a six-month trial to reduce rubbish-collection costs.
Many of the bins will disappear from bus stops.
Acting Lord Mayor Ron Christie said bins placed on bus routes for the disposal of tickets were now redundant.
The changeover from paper to electronic ticketing meant the bins remained empty, Alderman Christie said.
Bins clustered around the city were also on the council's hit list.
"There are six bins on the corner of Argyle and Collins streets and eight bins in Cornelian Bay Park," Ald Christie said.
"We don't need that many bins in the one spot."
The review also recommended a six-month trial of halving weekend waste collection from city bins to one day.
Ald Christie said council staff would monitor the amount of rubbish left during the six-month trial.
He said the council would save $300,000 by reducing its kerbside rubbish collection from weekly to fortnightly but that move was described as a "highly emotive issue" and too costly to implement.
Under that arrangement, all 120-litre bins would be upgraded to 240-litre if a fortnightly collection went ahead, Ald Christie said.
"The council would not even entertain it because it would cost us $1.2 billion," he said.
As well, larger families had concerns about the fortnightly collections.
"You leave rubbish out for two weeks it tends to go off a bit," he said.
The recommendations will go before the council for consideration at its meeting on Monday, April 15.
Public litter bin and weekly kerbside collection costs the council $2.4 million a year.
Meanwhile, Hobart City Council is monitoring neighbouring Glenorchy City Council's fortnightly rubbish collections.
jennifer.crawley@news.com.au
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