Decision details

Council RESOLVED

(a)               That household waste and recycling services be reconfigured to provide a two stream co-mingled dry recycling service alongside the existing alternate weekly green and black-wheeled bins, by the replacement of the existing kerbside box recycling service with a blue 240lt wheeled bin and 40lt inner caddy (fitting inside the blue bin) collected on alternate weeks by ‘twin-pack’ collection vehicles on the same day as the existing green bin;

(b)               That the dry recyclable materials to be collected by the new service include paper (telephone directories; newspapers & magazines; general paper) within a inner caddy and mixed dry recyclables including cans and tins (steel and aluminium); aerosols; glass; plastic bottles; hard plastic (pots, tubs, and trays); cartons (tetra packs); cardboard; aluminium foil placed in the blue wheeled bin.  Further materials to be added (i.e. plastic film) as processing facilities allow;

(c)               That the re-configured refuse and recycling collection service be implemented and operated by the Council’s in-house environment operations unit as a directly managed service together with the street cleansing services;

(d)               That all staffing, plant and equipment required to implement the re-configured service (option 7) be approved as detailed in the report to the Waste & Recycling Task and Finish Group on the 10 September 2009; and

(e)               That the 2009/10 and 2010/11 capital programme be amended by £1,510,000 to allow for the procurement of the blue bins and caddy inserts to be procured in this financial year.