News What waste service?
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is seeking residents' views on waste collections.
Residents have a choice of four options to determine what sort of kerbside waste recycling collection service they want.
They can register their preferred option before July 31 by logging on to the Have Your Say website at www.eastriding.gov.uk/consult or www.target45plus.org.
Cllr Stephen Parnaby, leader of the council, said: "The collection of waste is one of the biggest issues facing us and other councils across the country.
"This consultation aims to ensure that we reach reductions in waste and increases in recycling by providing the services that our residents and council-tax payers want."
* Option one proposes no change to the current waste collection service, where green bins are used for non-recyclable waste and blue bins for paper, plastic bottles and cans.
* Option two sees the addition of a brown bin to the current service. The brown bin would be used for garden waste.
* Option three provides residents with a weekly collection of the green bin and fortnightly collections of the brown and blue bin, with cardboard added.
* Under option four all three bins (green, blue and brown) would be collected fortnightly.
Although the council is giving residents their chance to voice their views on the scheme, Cllr Parnaby said that they already have a favored choice: "The council is very clear about the option which we consider our 'preferred option' (option three), but before we push ahead with the plans to deliver the improved recycling capacity we want to hear your views.
"The council's view is that residents want us to provide improved recycling opportunities, but they still have significant concerns over any proposals which reduce the frequency of collecting the green bin."
The council is currently promoting the Target 45+, a joint sustainable waste strategy with Hull City Council.
The strategy commits both councils to recycle or compost at least 45 per cent of residents' household waste by 2010.
Cllr Symon Fraser, cabinet portfolio holder for environment and waste, said: "Time and time again our East Riding residents prove their recycling credentials by increasing the amount of waste they recycle.
"We want to continue to develop our services to help residents to do even more recycling and to reduce their waste even further.'
The council also aims to tackle two other ambitious targets in the future. The first targets aims to make it more simple for every household to recycle and compost 50 per cent of their waste by 2020.
The second is to reduce the amount of non-recyclable waste collected from households in their green bins.
If these targets are not met this may result in council tax being used to pay Government fines and penalties of up to £27 million by 2018.
The council will announce the consultation and feedback results at a later date.
Published on 5th June 2008 in News.
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