Toxic bin fumes 'drug of choice'

Setting wheelie bins on fire and sniffing the fumes is the new "drug of choice" for youths, police in South Yorkshire have said.

Teenagers are thought to set the bins alight and then inhale the toxic plastic fumes to get a "high".



Police believe the craze could be behind bin fires in the Athersley and New Lodge areas of Barnsley.

Anti-solvent abuse charities said inhaling the bin fumes could be more dangerous than sniffing glue or petrol.

Pc Jonathan Reed of South Yorkshire Police said "The health and safety implications are terrible. It's only a matter of time before someone really harms themselves."