Labour put Birmingham wheelie bin consultation back to November
Labour put Birmingham wheelie bin consultation back to November
Birmingham’s Labour run Council has today announced that their plans to start consultation on the imposition of 3 wheelie bins per household will NOT start on 17th August as previous announced. Instead, they will wait until after October, when they will know if the government will give the Council the money for the wheelie bins. See http://birminghamnewsroom.com/2012/08/dclg-weekly-waste-bid-update/
This is a clear indication by the Council that they may have ‘screwed up’ this bid to the government. If I was Councillor James McKay I would be seriously thinking about resigning as Cabinet member if this bid fails to get the £28.5m he has bid for.
Let’s just remind ourselves of how this debacle started.
The government announced last year that they were inviting bids from Councils for ways to reintroduce weekly (from fortnightly) domestic waste collections, plus ways of increasing recycling. The government specifically mentoned that they would support bids for the introduction of food waste recycling schemes and increasing the frequency of current recycling collections from fortnightly to weekly. Nowhere did the government say they would fund the introduction of wheelie bins or even new containers.
The previous Conservative-Liberal Democrat administration put in a ‘notice of interest’ on a potential bid for a food waste recycling scheme, to be introduced in 2013, plus increasing recycling collections from fortnightly to weekly in areas that have high recycling collection rates.
The new Labour administration abandoned the proposed food recycling collection and increased recycling collection frequency bid. Instead they have put in a final bid of £28.5million to impose 3 wheelie bins per household for every household in Birmingham.
With the 17th August deadline passed for final bids, it has become clear that Birmingham’s bid is completely out-of-sync with every town and city in Britain. The most common bid is for the introduction of food recycling collections, with only one other authority bidding for the introduction of wheelie bins and that was only for green waste.
If the government only give a fraction of the £28.5million then some Labour politicians need to consider resigning after this debacle.
posted by martin mullaney @ 10:54 AM
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6 Comments:
I would have no place to put one wheelie bin at the front or back of my terraced house in Sparkhill, let alone three bins. Our road will look awful, dirty, depressing.
Jerry Evans has asked residents to complete an opinion form about wheelie bins etc and to post it ball to him. I have, indeed, responded but I am aware that neighbours are not happy to purchase stamps to post the form, and not happy to hand deliver it to JE's address.
I would have no place to put one wheelie bin at the front or back of my terraced house in Sparkhill, let alone three bins. Our road will look awful, dirty, depressing.
People are continuously whining that they will have nowhere to put these wheelie bins and that their streets will look a mess.
Can they tell me where they actually currently put their dustbins then???????
People are continuously whining that they will have nowhere to put these wheelie bins and that their streets will look a mess.
Can they tell me where they actually currently put their dustbins then???????
They currently have their dustbins in their backyard and carry the bin bag from it, though the house. You can't do this with a wheelie bin due to size AND it leaving mud tracks through the house.
OR, as in my case, I leave the roll of bin bags in a cupboard and empty the kitchen bin (and other household bins) into one of them the night before they go out for the refuse crews.
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