A North Belfast man is calling for answers amid claims there has not been a 'proper bin collection' on his street since June 12.
He lives off Donegall Park Avenue and told how some locals "ended up paying for private bin collections" as a result.
He told Belfast Live: "June 12 was our last proper collection of all bins.
Every collection since has had to be redone a few days later or a week later and we're still waiting for them to be collected from last week.
"They missed a full street on June 26, promised a collection, and came out the 3rd of July week and did the street they missed.
"They tried to skip it July 10 and a man actually chased after the bin lorry to make sure they turned to empty bins again.
"Again last week no bins were emptied - a week later we are all sitting with over flowing bins, dog mess everywhere numerous complaints logged into council by several neighbours and myself and still not a bin emptied."
The man, who is a resident of the Fairhill area, said on Tuesday he had been waiting for a refuse collection manager to get back to him from council since last Wednesday about the ongoing issue, but that "no one has got in touch".
He said: "I contacted council again and was told they would be emptied by Tuesday and that there is a problem of back logged collections all over Belfast.
"I logged a second complaint online and got a vague email back from council."
He now wants to know what residents should do with additional bags as they now have three weeks waste that needs to be dealt with.
"The council has admitted themselves that since middle of June the lorry has stated no access every week," he continued.
"We are having to use other bins as storage for household waste, plus a few people in street have ended up paying for private bin collections."
A worker at private recycling firm A1 said that while their "main work is shops or cleaning houses" that they "would do bins" as well.
He said householders have been getting in touch to pay for private bin emptying services.
A Belfast City Council spokesperson said: "While our crews make every effort to ensure all bins are emptied on the scheduled collection day, crews have experienced difficulties in accessing this particular street due to parked cars.
"This has been reported and this will be completed as soon as operationally possible."
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