Home owners who dump their black bags of domestic rubbish around Tenby were issued a stern warning by the town's Mayor, Clr. Mrs. Christine Brown, this week.
Before Tuesday night's meeting of the council was a letter from Jane Williams, the warden of Augustus Place, with a complaint from tenants that bags of rubbish were being placed opposite numbers 19 to 22.
"They (the tenants) have said that they have seen people coming from the Clareston Road and the Penally Hill areas doing this," Mrs. Williams wrote.
"On Monday I counted no less than 20 black bags that should not have been there."
Clr. Mrs. Brown said that there was a growing problem around the town of people placing bags of rubbish in areas not by their houses and expecting it to be collected.
"We recently had a walk about around the town with Pembrokeshire County Council officers who actually opened some of the bags they saw to see if they could find out where they had come from," she said.
The elderly people living in Augustus Place should not have to put up with this and the county council have promised to monitor the situation.
"Basically, anyone who dumps rubbish in the town and thinks they can get away with it, can think again," she stressed.