RECYCLING FAILURE CONTINUES – CLLR WILKES CHALLENGES CABINET

The overall waste recycled by Durham County Council remains stubbornly below 30%. The aerobic digester still hasn’t been fixed, and council taxpayers will be landed with a £6m pound landfill tax next year as a direct result of the failure of the Labour-run council to put in place a proper waste strategy. The Council can’t even hit its own miserly 35% target.

I asked at Cabinet today when the aerobic digester would be working again and after a repeated failure to answer the question, the best I got was that we should know in the summer. Not that it will be fixed and running in the summer – just that we will know when it will be repaired. This is unacceptable and comes of the back of my challenge a few weeks ago after finding out that we are spending just £30k of council money and £100k of national money on waste reduction schemes – woefully inadequate when you consider the £6m landfill charge which is likely to rise to £7m the year after.

Come on Labour get your act together and stop costing residents in Durham the Earth for waste.

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