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Stoke-on-Trent City Council is trimming its costs by operating the 'cut and drop' system from this year.

GRASS clippings are no longer being picked up by city council maintenance staff on fields and verges to cut costs and help 'save the planet'.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is trimming its costs by operating the 'cut and drop' system from this year.

It means mown grass is only collected from the city's park and residents' gardens.

But the policy has angered residents' groups who are sick of the grass clippings blowing around.

Eaton Park Residents' Association has called for leading councillor Andy Platt to attend its next meeting after complaining about the policy.

Association chairman John Caulkin said: "When it rains, the sheer number of loose grass clippings make the pavements slippier and we've had residents who have fallen over as a result of this. The whole place looks like a pig sty as a result of the council's 'cut and drop' policy. It's a mess because the pavements get covered in clippings."

John Owen, chairman of Trentham Residents' Association, said scattered grass clippings can cause unwanted weeds and moss to grow.

He said: "I think this is just penny pinching, I don't see why they can't take the grass clippings away with them as they used to.

"But if they are going to leave the grass cuttings there another solution would be to scrape them up into one big pile, out of the way, and left to decompose. The reason people don't leave grass cuttings all over their gardens is that moss and weeds start to grow and before you know it you have more moss than grass."

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