Recycling Boxes

[toalisi]

My Aunt lives in a block of flats and leaves her green recycling box, containing mainly newspapers and cardboard, outside the front door of the units.
This is in a communal area and she removes the box on collection days and puts it in the street.It is not placed in a dangerous spot where it could be tripped over etc.
She has been told that it is a Council regulation that all green boxes should be kept inside the flats until collection days and then put out.
Is this correct?

[regulo]

If that's what the regulation says then it is. A phone call to the council will settle it. What people sometimes overlook is that although in the normal run of things there's no problem, in the case of a fire, with thick smoke, any obstacle can mean the difference between life and death. That's why communal areas should be kept clear, a trip is all it may take to render someone prone and unconcious.

[pink-kittens]

Does she have a balcony or outside shed she can keep it in?

[toalisi]

Thanks regulo & pink-kittens for your replies.

She lives in a first floor unit and finds it difficult to manage the box down the stairs.
I will phone the Council tomorrow but thought I'd try and get some advice before I speak to them.
I take the point about an obstacle and a fire emergency.

[joko]

she might be best seeing if one of the downstars neighbours would mind keeping her box underneath theirs til collection day, and she gets one of those canvas bags in order to carry the stuff down stairs...much easier... and she can empty it into the box

[bushbaby_de]

Is it a Council flat? In which case they can impose management rules like this.