Leeds Council bin man on “alternative duties” over mum’s viral video of rubbish misdemeanour UPDATED

Debbie Campbell outside her home in Leeds. Picture: Ross Parry Agency

A Leeds council bin man has been put on “alternative duties” while bosses continue to investigate CCTV showing him tossing rubbish out of a bin onto the street.

The video – in which the collector removes two bags from the bins on Inglewood Place in Seacroft and drops them next to a gate – was posted online by mum of two Debbie Campbell on Saturday.

After being published on the Yorkshire Evening Post website, the footage was also used by other local and national media and has since been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

It later emerged that the waste truck, which initially left the street, returned about 40 minutes later to collect the rubbish.

But Leeds City Council said the bin man, who was taken off front-line duties after the incident, has now been redeployed. A spokeswoman said today: “We have found alternative duties for him while the appropriate internal procedures are followed.”

Miss Campbell, 48, was sitting at home watching the live CCTV footage when the incident happened on Saturday morning.

She said she had extra waste after missing a collection a fortnight ago.