Issue - decisions

The Environmental Services Portfolio Holder NOTED the findings of the review of the operational effect the blue bin service has had on clack and green bin services, and APPROVED the round optimisation project in order to investigate efficiencies within the black, green and blue bin services.  

The Committee RECOMMENDED that information on how food waste can be wrapped for disposal in green bins be included in the Communication Strategy.

The Committee AGREED to review the Council’s waste and recycling service in February 2012.

The Committee

RECOMMENDED    That

(A)               The idea of including paper caddies as part of the black bin collection is considered in the forthcoming review.

(B)              The Council consider sensitive options for ascertaining whether assisted collections are still required.

(C)              More discreet collection methods of yellow contaminated waste bags be considered.

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. 

Cabinet RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL:

(a)               that the Council reconfigure its household waste and recycling services 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)               approval of all staffing, plant and equipment required to implement the re-configured service (option 7) as detailed in the report to the Waste & Recycling Task and Finish Group on the 10 September 2009; and

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

Cabinet AGREED, subject to Council approval of (a) to (e), that:

(f)                 as the cost of collecting the existing 55lt boxes would outweigh their residual value, residents be advised that they can either keep their existing recycling boxes or they can deliver them to specified collection points for onward recycling;

(g)               the MRF services be procured using an EU-compliant tender process, either under the RECAP partners tender if this is contractually available or under an ESPO tender process, so that the most economically advantageous result for the Council can be achieved;

(h)               additional bins and caddies be procured using an EU-compliant tender process either through an existing framework contract or the Council’s own tender process and that the net associated expenditure be funded from an increase in the Council’s credit limits (cash reserves) and ‘repaid’ over the life of the bins (assumed to be 14 years);

(i)                  a Value for Money review of the Service be undertaken after a period not exceeding three years from the date of implementation; and

(j)                  the costs of tendering be met through the precautionary items budget. 

AUTHORISED            the addition to the establishment of the Commercial Department from the current financial year of