Decision details

The Executive will be asked to consider an update on the results of the wheelie bin pilot scheme in terms of street cleanliness, waste reduction, recycling performance and resident consultation and whether the pilot should be rolled out borough wide.

By Minute 116 (20 January 2009) it was agreed that, in the light of the success of pilots carried out in five areas, to roll out across the Borough the provision of wheelie bins for household waste.

The decision was subsequently called in, and at a meeting of the Scrutiny Management Board (Minute 71, 9 February 2009) it was decided to ask the Executive to defer the implementation of the scheme in order to give all Members of their respective parties the opportunity to receive a presentation, thus allowing them to ask questions on how the roll out of the scheme would affect their constituents before a final decision is made.

Consequently, all Members were invited to attend a presentation from the Corporate Director of Customer Services and to ask questions and/or seek clarification at a pre-Assembly briefing earlier this evening.

In the light of the presentation, the Corporate Director of Customer Services represented the report outlining the results of the wheelie bin pilots. Agreed, in order to assist the Council to achieve its Community Priorities of “Making Barking and Dagenham Cleaner, Greener and Safer” and “Raising General Pride in the Borough”, to the adoption of the wheelie bin scheme throughout the Borough, the capital and revenue implications of which have been included as part of the Council’s budget process approved by the Assembly.