Issue - meetings

To consider the implementation of a Simpler Recycling collection model.

Contact: Nick Jenkin, Operational Services

RESOLVED –

1)    That approval be given to planning for the implementation of a simpler recycling collection model, in line with legislative requirements.

2)    That it be agreed that a new model will be implemented for recycling collections, which will commence in 2028, subject to the submission of a report to Cabinet to seek approval to commence a new contract.

3)    That approval be given to the development of options for a future collection model that complies with simpler recycling legislation at the relevant time during the procurement process for the new integrated resource and waste management services contract.

Cabinet gave consideration to a report which sought agreement for the Council to comply with simpler recycling legislation for residential recycyling collectiosn from 2028 through the collection of all compliant materials via the collection method required within legislation, from the start of the new waste disposal and treatment contract in 2028.

The report also highlighted how the recycling collection model would critically link with the new integrated resource and waste management procurement, which was previously approved by Cabinet in 2024.

The report advised that a decision was required to comply with simpler recycling legislation from 2028, which would allow the service to model an effective and efficient collection model, which would be implemented following the end of the existing waste treatment and disposal model, in line with guidelines set out within EPR funding and would enable the service to develop a complaint model that could be adopted for the new disposal and treatment contract, starting in 2028.

RESOLVED –

1)    That approval be given to planning for the implementation of a simpler recycling collection model, in line with legislative requirements.

2)    That it be agreed that a new model will be implemented for recycling collections, which will commence in 2028, subject to the submission of a report to Cabinet to seek approval to commence a new contract.

3)    That approval be given to the development of options for a future collection model that complies with simpler recycling legislation at the relevant time during the procurement process for the new integrated resource and waste management services contract.