TWO hundred new bins have put in place along Bournemouth seafront to keep up with demand from visitors.

People will be able to separate their rubbish from their recycling at the bins along the seafront which are located between Alum Chine and Southbourne and have seen capacity increase by 70 per cent.

Larger 1,100 litre bins can also now be found at Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers, the two busiest areas of the seafront.

The bins form part of Bournemouth and Poole councils’ Leave Only Footprints campaign which urges people to not to leave their litter behind after a visit to the beach.

Andrew Brown, seafront operations manager, said: “These bins not only reduce the waste left on beaches, but also increase Bournemouth’s recycling rates.

“Each day, operatives emptying the waste check the recycling bins to see if general waste has contaminated them, as general waste cannot be processed at a recycling plant. If the recyclable waste is contaminated, it is then taken with all other waste to be processed and split into recycling, compost and general waste."

He added: “We will continue to encourage visitors to recycle their waste correctly and work hard to ensure any waste near the seafront does not end up in landfill.”

Last month an estimated 200,000 people flocked to Bournemouth for the early May bank holiday weekend.

There was anger from residents over the amount of litter left strewn along the beach and piled up next to the bins.

A petition, set up by Bournemouth resident Jane Cooper, calling on councils in the area to take further action to reduce the problem in the area received thousands of signatures.

Bournemouth and Poole spend between £1million and £2m on cleaning the beaches every year with six full-time and 15 seasonal staff employed to collect litter on the seafront.