Issue - meetings

Recycling, Environmental Services and Car Parking

To review changes to the Council’s waste and recycling collection service.

Resolved:

1.  That, in order to respond to the Environment Act 2021 and the recently approved Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy, the Council makes the necessary changes and subsequent investment in its waste and recycling collection service.

2.  That the future of waste and recycling collections will take the direction as introduced in section 5.4 – Option B and described in section 6 of the report, but specifically the introduction of a weekly collection of food waste and an alternating collection of ‘fibres’ (paper, magazines and cardboard), ‘containers’ (glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, plastic pots, tubs and trays, cans and tins, aerosols, cartons) and ‘non-recyclable household waste’ from as early as 2024.

Cabinet considered a report of the Recycling, Environmental Services and Car Parking Portfolio Holder which set out details of the proposed response to the Environment Act 2021 in respect of waste and recycling services.

Due to the changes in legislation, the Council was required to make significant changes to its waste and recycling collection service which would need to align with the availability of infrastructure being developed and delivered by Hampshire County Council in their capacity as the Waste Disposal Authority.

The proposal was for twin stream alternating; residents would have their black bin emptied on week 1, their brown bin emptied on week 2, and their blue bin emptied on week 3. Food waste would be collected weekly. This option would give the Council the opportunity to maximise its recycling rate.

Having considered the options and for the reasons set out in the report, Cabinet agreed to the following:

Resolved:

1.  That, in order to respond to the Environment Act 2021 and the recently approved Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy, the Council makes the necessary changes and subsequent investment in its waste and recycling collection service.

2.  That the future of waste and recycling collections will take the direction as introduced in section 5.4 – Option B and described in section 6 of the report, but specifically the introduction of a weekly collection of food waste and an alternating collection of ‘fibres’ (paper, magazines and cardboard), ‘containers’ (glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, plastic pots, tubs and trays, cans and tins, aerosols, cartons) and ‘non-recyclable household waste’ from as early as 2024.