COMMENTING upon the audit commission's annual report local media picked up upon the fact that MHDC's recycling and household waste collection is amongst the best in the country. It therefore begs the question of why is the current MHDC Tory administration currently considering reneging on their manifesto pledge to keep the weekly household waste collections. If they go for fortnightly collections thereby breaking their promise the electorate across the whole MHDC area will not forgive them and they have long memories.
Even with weekly collections, we see the occasional rat emerging from the piled bags in next door's bin store. If it wants fortnightly collections, will the Council plan to double the size of its sanitation department or shall we all be supplied with municipal cats?
Even with weekly collections, we see the occasional rat emerging from the piled bags in next door's bin store. If it wants fortnightly collections, will the Council plan to double the size of its sanitation department or shall we all be supplied with municipal cats?
Posted by: zymurgy, Worcestershire on 6:58pm Tue 29 Apr 08
Didn't the 2007 Tory local Manifesto promise some phrase like they would "do their utmost" to resist fortnightly refuse collection. Perhaps they are doing their utmost? Or perhaps the best is yet to come? Be fair, we really should wait and see.
Didn't the 2007 Tory local Manifesto promise some phrase like they would "do their utmost" to resist fortnightly refuse collection. Perhaps they are doing their utmost? Or perhaps the best is yet to come? Be fair, we really should wait and see.
Zymurgy is not correct in his recollection.The phrase the Tories used was that weekly collections are "safe in our hands". You can't get more specific than that.
Clive Smith
Zymurgy is not correct in his recollection.The phrase the Tories used was that weekly collections are "safe in our hands". You can't get more specific than that.
Posted by: chrischeeseman, Malvern Wells on 8:49am Thu 1 May 08
Mr Clive Smith is not correct. The wording of our manifesto was "fighting to maintain the current weekly system of general refuse collection".
The form of words used reflects the fact that the 2003-7 administration of which Clive Smith himself was a prominent member, had signed The Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Herefordshire & Worcestershire 2004-2034
which proposed Alternate Weekly (ie fortnightly) Collections via wheelie bins. This document is still available on WCC website.
Interestingly, the Libdems rushed out a panicky leaflet just before the 07 election declaring support for weekly collections. The electorate was not impressed.
This municipal agreement allows for triennial review, and so, as previously stated, nothing is now set in stone except the general commitment to reduce landfill waste and increase recycling. The weekly collections will broadly continue as long as financially and logistically possible in a developing technological and commercial sector.
Cllr Chris Cheeseman.
Mr Clive Smith is not correct. The wording of our manifesto was "fighting to maintain the current weekly system of general refuse collection".
The form of words used reflects the fact that the 2003-7 administration of which Clive Smith himself was a prominent member, had signed The Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Herefordshire & Worcestershire 2004-2034
which proposed Alternate Weekly (ie fortnightly) Collections via wheelie bins. This document is still available on WCC website.
Interestingly, the Libdems rushed out a panicky leaflet just before the 07 election declaring support for weekly collections. The electorate was not impressed.
This municipal agreement allows for triennial review, and so, as previously stated, nothing is now set in stone except the general commitment to reduce landfill waste and increase recycling. The weekly collections will broadly continue as long as financially and logistically possible in a developing technological and commercial sector.
Cllr Chris Cheeseman.
Posted by: clive smith, 20 Greenfields Road on 12:11pm Thu 1 May 08
Cllr.Cheeseman is being as ever when defending the indefensible being to put it charitably disingenuos.I can assure him that the form of words used in the Tory manifesto certainly read like the weekly bin collection was safe in their hands and that is certainly the way the electorate interpreted it.Interestingly it was the Tories who rushed out their leaflet on rubbish collections after we published ours, and it's the lib/dems being panicky?. He is correct when he states that we signed the waste strategy. However we learnt from the toilets fiasco that you ignore the electorate at your peril. We listened to what they said about weekly collections and repented and admitted that another way had to be found to increase recycling without abandoning the weekly collection.
Clive Smith
Cllr.Cheeseman is being as ever when defending the indefensible being to put it charitably disingenuos.I can assure him that the form of words used in the Tory manifesto certainly read like the weekly bin collection was safe in their hands and that is certainly the way the electorate interpreted it.Interestingly it was the Tories who rushed out their leaflet on rubbish collections after we published ours, and it's the lib/dems being panicky?. He is correct when he states that we signed the waste strategy. However we learnt from the toilets fiasco that you ignore the electorate at your peril. We listened to what they said about weekly collections and repented and admitted that another way had to be found to increase recycling without abandoning the weekly collection.
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