A community group has thanked the council for its support in making Aberystwyth “a nicer place for locals and visitors”.

Caru Aber is a small group of volunteers set up in 2019 by Yvonne Dryburgh and Jeff Jones to help clean up the town.

The group has organised regular litter picks.

Yvonne said: “Following discussion with Ceredigion County Council, I can confirm that there will be evening litter collections throughout the summer months.

“The council have also agreed to look at additional litter bin capacity at Llys-y-Brenin Square.

“The council are just as eager to clean up the town and this is a great example of us all working together to make Aberystwyth a nicer place to live. A huge thank you to the council and to everyone else who helps pick up the litter. We are all another step closer to tidying up the town.”

Caru Aber usually organises a litter pick once a month, normally the third or the fourth Sunday. Volunteers meet at the bandstand at around 10am and “head off either through the town or down to the beach”. Yvonne said the next litter pick is on 9 May at Tanybwlch.

“We started the litter picks a year ago and have been doing them regularly since (apart from during lockdown),” Yvonne said.

“The council support has helped us cater for lager numbers of volunteers as they lend us the equipment and take the rubbish away. Because of their support we are now able to address other problems such as lack of signage and placing stickers on the council bins asking people to dispose of their face masks in a bin.”

A spokesperson for Ceredigion said they had “increased the number and/or size of litter bins” at coastal locations and their “small team of street and beach cleaners” are working hard every day.

“While we look to make the most of the available resources there are of course limitations in terms of the numbers of bins that can be deployed and the number of times a day they can be emptied,” a spokesperson said. “A proliferation of bins is not the answer as, in the wrong locations, they can cause more problems than they solve. These can include creating access and obstruction issues and being miss-used by attracting fly tipping, domestic and trade waste rather than the on the go litter they are intended for.”