Issue - decisions

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