The Facts on Bin collection

Despite what other parties say to the press or in other forms of communication the fact is, this issue has been looked at for many months.
Other parties have had their own members looking at this and right from the start all parties had been on the same side.
Please remember this is all 3 parties that have attended a working group on this issue.
Now all of a sudden the party that likes to sit on the fence wishes to raise the objection of not enough consultation within this process and wants to start and spin facts yet again.
Another example was at the Environment and community committee the other ward councillor stated she was concerned that the wheelie bins would be hard to store in areas such as Berecroft?
Perhaps a visit to the estate would show to this councillor that all properties on the estate have front sheds.
As a ward councillor for this area I would have hoped that she would have known that, perhaps a visit is needed?
Also why did they when in administration not put this out to consultation?
It is not unusual for this party to be on planet mars and start to get hot under the collar when a decision needs to be made but here are the facts of this issue.



1. There will not be smelly rubbish hanging around - We as a council have said that we want to KEEP weekly collection of food waste. That’s very important to us and something the papers have not mentioned much. It is collection of food waste that most people want to continue weekly – We agree – fortnightly collection of food waste would be bad for health and generally create smells we don’t want outside our houses.
2. The present fortnightly collection of recyclable rubbish will continue but instead of a rag tag collection of boxes and bags which tend to spill and blow around, will be collected from a large wheelie bin.
3. Nappies and such like will be collected weekly, by a bookable service
4. There will be a bookable kerbside collection of green waste
5. Anything left over (which is likely to be things like non recyclable plastic) and will not be smelly will be collected every other week (the week your recycling is not collected)