The issues being reported by residents come after a clampdown on fly-tipping by Lewisham Council last year.
And it’s not the first time that the piles of rubbish bags left by street cleaners has caused problems locally.
In December, enforcement officers showed the BBC that in some parts of Lewisham, bags of rubbish are piled up by street cleaners and these are added to by authorised rubbish bags from flats and businesses. These piles of rubbish, they said, are then attracting fly tipping.
Eiman Rostami, from the council, said: “Unfortunately, human nature, you see a big pile of rubbish bags on the side of the road, and you think ‘oh, I’ve got some rubbish as well – I can’t be bothered to take it to the dump, I’ll just put it next to there’.”
The council increased the maximum fine for fly-tipping from £400 to £1,000 last year.