Issue - meetings

To agree to sign-up to the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Lincolnshire.

Decision:

To adopt the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Lincolnshire as set out in Appendix 1 of report number ENV710

Reasons for decision

1.     Report number ENV710 of the Cabinet Member for Environment and the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy appended to the report

2.     In Lincolnshire, local authority collected waste accounted for 10% of the total waste produced by all sectors

3.     The vision of the strategy “to seek the best environmental option to provide innovative, customer-friendly waste management solution that give value for money to Lincolnshire” and the shared value developed by the Lincolnshire Waste Management Partnership

4.     The ten objectives designed to enable the Lincolnshire Waste Partnership to achieve its proposed vision

5.     Feedback from the consultation exercise attached as Appendix B to Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy

6.     The initial action plan attached as Appendix D to the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy

7.     Comments of the Environment Overview and Scrutiny which considered the first draft of the Strategy on 24 April 2018

8.     Feedback on a Member workshop which provided a response to consultation on the draft strategy

9.     Adjustments made to the strategy by the Lincolnshire Waste Partnership in light of feedback received during the consultation period

10.  Comments made by the Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the final version of the document at its meeting on 20 November 2018

Other options considered and rejected

None; as a two-tier local authority area Lincolnshire is required, by law, to have a shared waste strategy

The Cabinet Member for Environment stated that the Lincolnshire Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy (appended to report number ENV710) had been brought to Cabinet for ratification. The Strategy had been developed by the Lincolnshire Waste Partnership, which comprised all of the collection authorities in Lincolnshire together with Lincolnshire County Council as the disposal authority and the Environment Agency. The partners were keen to ensure that the service provided in Lincolnshire represented value for money; the strategy also emphasised innovation and reducing materials entering the waste stream.

Reference was made to the food waste pilot that was underway in South Kesteven and the announcement of the Government’s waste management strategy. Cabinet Members asked whether there were any trends in the kind of authorities that had food waste collection schemes. As an alternative to food waste recycling schemes, one non-Cabinet Member asked whether consideration would be given to supplying composters at the cost of the bin.

Cabinet Members noted that when the strategy was considered by Lincolnshire County Council it had received unanimous support.

Whilst there were discrepancies in the materials that were accepted for recycling in each local authority area, discussions were underway to streamline the materials that were accepted so that there was greater consistency.

Cabinet Members asked that their thanks to the Cabinet Member for Environment, the Assistant Director, Commercial and Operational and the Head of Street Scene be placed on record.

The Cabinet AGREED to adopt the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Lincolnshire as set out in Appendix 1 of report number ENV710.