"We must maximise recycling" - Lib Dems
May 24, 2007 12:00 AM
Lib Dems are urging the Tories to make their secret waste negotiations public
Liberal Democrats on West Berkshire Council are urging that the new Integrated Waste Management Contract currently being negotiated should:
• Ensure that kitchen waste is still collected weekly;
• Maintain the present household collection of cans, glass bottles, newspapers and magazines for recycling;
• Add a household collection service for other types of paper, cardboard, garden waste and all plastics;
• Provide for the development of a major Household Waste Recycling Centre on an expanded Pinchington Lane site, rather than despoiling the largely greenfield site at Abbotswood;
• Provide smaller Household Recycling Centres in the East and West of the District to reduce the distance people have to drive to recycle their waste;
• Deliver an "Ecology Village" as promised as an educational facility promoting the ecologically sustainable treatment of waste.
Councillor Dr Royce Longton, Lib Dem spokesman for Waste Management, said:
"It is vital that the Council makes it easy for people to recycle the widest possible range of plastics and other waste. Promoting a positive approach to recycling is also vitally important. Hence the need to develop the Ecology Village, a central feature of the original Lib Dem bid that will be worth more than £50m to West Berkshire Council. I am also disappointed that there has been no consultation on this since 2002, and the Conservatives are keeping basic details of the contract to secret meetings held behind closed doors. I am urging them to share these important arrangements with the people who are affected by them."
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