Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Environment and Transport on the current position of the waste and recycling service in response to the submission of a petition to Council at its meeting held on 8^th December 2004.

Noted that the will Council continue to roll out the new waste and recycling services across the District based on the alternating weekly collection.

With the assistance of a report by the Head of Environment and Transport (a copy of which is appended to the Minute Book), the Cabinet were acquainted with a petition referred from full Council in support of a request to return to a weekly collection of refuse in the District without any additional cost to Huntingdonshire Council taxpayers.

In noting the implications of the request in terms of the EU Landfill Directive, together with local and regional targets for waste minimisation and recycling, Executive Councillors also were acquainted with cost, operational, health and safety and other considerations associated with the possible return to weekly collection arrangements.  The Executive Councillor for Waste Management and Streetscene also referred to the success of the Council’s roll-out of arrangements for the collection of household waste and green and dry recyclable materials.  Whereupon and having reviewed extensively the issues involved, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  that the Council continue to roll-out the new waste and recycling service across the District based on alternating weekly collections.