Issue - meetings

The Committee considered the report of the Service Director, Legal and Governance detailing a review of the impact and effectiveness of the Alternate Weekly Bin Collections. 

The Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport was present and with the consent of the Chair addressed the meeting. 

RESOLVED that:

i)  to avert future problems, officers consider providing information on effectively managing household waste and recycling to residents who, during the November 2017 consultation, responded that their bins were regularly overflowing;

ii)  that the Committee were provided with information that outlines the in year costs and savings associated with the implementation of Alternate Weekly Collections;

iii)  the Council targets persistent offenders when exercising EPA Section 46 powers that require household waste to be placed in appropriate receptacles and at specified collection times;

iv)  the Executive, when discussing with counterparts across Hampshire future options with regards to material recycling facilities, promote opportunities to enable glass and dry products to be recycled within the recycling bins;

v)  the Committee were provided with waiting times for customers using the Contact Centre and the action that has been taken to address this to benefit waste services, amongst others; 

vi)  the 2017/18 recycling and general waste statistics were circulated to the Committee when they had been validated;

vii)  the impact and effectiveness of Alternate Weekly Collections (AWC) be considered at a meeting of the OSMC in 2018/19, preferably in the autumn.  The Committee requested that the update includes a comprehensive suite of performance indicators and metrics to enable comparisons to be made between the periods before and after the implementation of AWC. If possible a geographical breakdown of key outcomes was requested.