An article on the letsrecycle site has been brought to my attention - "UK's 'most Conservative council' to retain AWC" from 01 June 2011.
It states that Waverley Borough Council in Surrey, with 56 out of 57 [the other is an Independent. Indeed although the Lib Dems are listed on the Council website, there are none on the Council. Labour doesn't even warrant a mention!]] has pledged to defy Communities Secretary Eric Pickles over his call for a return to weekly waste collections. It intends to stand by its own alternate weekly system.
On the offer of £100 million funding to entice councils back to weekly bin collections, Mary Orton, chief executive of Waverley, said "It is the pseudo-micro-mangement of councils for a quick Daily mail headline. The amount of money [allegedly] on offer is nowhere near enough to even scratch the surface of getting councils to go back from forthnightly to weekly collections"
Waverley decided they wouldn't countenance the change due to £650,000-a-year savings under AWC and the additional capital costs in returning to weekly.
No comments:
Post a Comment