Attended a meeting with other councillors today to start discussions on problems which may arise from the new system.

A small number of households are indicating that they don’t have space for the new bin and the council is looking at each case individually to see the best solution.

If there are any issues you have concerns with please get in touch with me and we can see what can be done to address them.

I have been looking at the councils budget and they are suggesting that this is only going to increase recycling by 3%. That is quite frankly absurd. When they did this in Derwentside recycling rose by much more and in some part of the country it went up by nearly 50%. This matters because for each extra 1% of recycling the council will save £140,000 in landfill tax and other charges. So if they budget for only 3% increase in recycling when in reality it could be 10%,  they will have more money left over to protect frontline services.