Agenda item

Waste Management

13.1

It was formally moved by Councillor Joe Otten, and formally seconded by Councillor Richard Shaw, that this Council:-

(a)      notes the recent Cabinet report “Waste Management Policies” which was passed by the Administration last month;

(b)      has concerns about some of the policy changes laid out by the Administration in this report, in particular, the proposal for a £20 charge for replacement black bins, even when a replacement is needed through no fault of the resident, such as theft or criminal damage;

(c)      believes that this charge is unfair and, with other savings that the Administration expects to be delivered through changes to the waste management contract and other policy changes, unnecessary;

(d)      believes that this charge will lead to more thefts of bins and more littering and fly tipping, which in turn will incur cleaning costs for the Council; and

(e)      calls on the Administration to reconsider this charge until further consultation is undertaken.

13.2

Whereupon, it was formally moved by Councillor Tony Downing, and formally seconded by Councillor Andy Bainbridge, that the Motion now submitted be amended by the deletion of paragraphs (b) to (e) and the addition of new paragraphs (b) to (f) as follows:-

(b)      reaffirms that the £20 charge will not apply when a bin is damaged by the collection crew or is reported to have gone into the back of the collection vehicle;

(c)      reaffirms that, under the proposal, no customer is being charged for the new brown recycling bins and that the £20 charge for a replacement bin is a fair way to mitigate the cost of providing containers and will reduce the overall cost of the service to the Council and, in turn, local taxpayers;

(d)      states that the proposal for a £20 charge for a replacement bin brings Sheffield in line with the other South Yorkshire local authorities, and that the proposed charge is actually less than the cost incurred in Rotherham and Doncaster and equal to the cost in Barnsley;

(e)      believes that the new bins will be much more durable and robust than the smaller blue bin-box currently used, and introduced by the previous Council Administration, and should therefore lead to less damage and loss; and

(f)       welcomes the replacement of the box-bin with an additional recycling bin.

13.3

On being put to the vote, the amendment was carried.

13.4

The original Motion, as amended, was then put as a Substantive Motion in the following form and carried:-

13.4.1

(NOTE: Councillors Andy Nash, Bob Pullin, Richard Shaw, Adam Hanrahan, Joe Otten, Martin Smith, Shaffaq Mohammed, Paul Scriven, Sue Alston, Andrew Sangar, Cliff Woodcraft, Ian Auckland, Steve Ayris, Gail Smith, David Baker, Penny Baker and Vickie Priestleyvoted for paragraphs (a), (e) and (f), and voted against paragraphs (b) to (d) of the Substantive Motion and asked for this to be recorded.)