Residents on Kingston Crescent are fed up with garbage from an ice cream shop on Jubilee Avenue making its way to their area – clogging bins and attracting wasps.

The neighbourhood is across the river from the Bridge Drive-In, a popular ice cream shop. The two spots are connected by a walking bridge.

Bins along Kingston Crescent are stuffed with garbage from the Bridge Drive-In, a popular ice cream shop on Jubilee Avenue. (Chris Read/CBC) This year there are more ice cream cups, spoons and napkins than in other years.

"Why doesn't the city come and clean it up? It's full of garbage – overflowing. There's wasps. It's not good for people or children," said Grace Martini, who lives near the Elm Park Bridge.

Don Donahue wants the city to come by more frequently to clean the bins.

"[It's] a rather remarkable display of garbage, wasps, crab apples, napkins, plastic spoons," said Donahue.

"It kind of defies the imagination," he added, laughing.

Justin Jacob, who co-owns BDI with his wife, said they've tried everything to deal with the garbage issue. He said it's an ongoing concern, and he wants to work with the city to deal with it.

"We are willing to take on a portion of the bill," he said. "It's tough because we are kind of caught in the middle. It's our garbage, so we do want to take responsibility for it."

Jacob lives in the community himself and said most of his staff do too.

"The challenge is because we don't own that property, we can't really just go in there and take action and do things as we would on our own property," he said. "We ensure our own bins are cleared often enough."

He said he's called 311 a number of times in the past and left messages with his city councillor and MLA.

"In their defence, if it's a nicer weekend, we will produce more garbage. There's no way around that," he said. "So if they are just coming on their regular garbage day one week it may be totally fine. Another week … it might be totally filled with garbage."

After CBC inquired about the bins, city crews showed up Tuesday morning. (Alana Cole/CBC) He also tried contacting an independent waste removal company, but he's not allowed to pay someone else to empty city trash bins.

"They won't touch them because we are not responsible for that property. The bins don't belong to us, so we have no authorization to hire them," said Jacob.

He's even sent his own staff to clean up garbage on the bridge, but he said it's not fair to ask them to dig in city bins to pull out BDI-branded garbage.

The garbage issues aren't on his property, so putting up more bins doesn't seem to help, he said.

After CBC made some calls to City of Winnipeg officials inquiring about complaints and how often the bins are cleaned, our reporter spotted crews emptying the bins Tuesday morning.

City officials said the bins are cleaned weekly, and they are "always willing to discuss with businesses how to more effectively manage their waste."

They added they've contacted Jacob to come up with a solution.