The borough council’s Environment and Economy Committee has been discussing the local authority’s response to a DAERA (Department for the Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs) consultation on the future of waste recycling in Northern Ireland . The council has said in its response “while we agree in principle with the restriction of capacity for residual waste, we believe it should be left to individual councils to decide how this restriction is delivered through bin size and/or frequency of collection”. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
It has also stated: “There is concern that utilising a reduced frequency collection in order to deliver this will have real issues associated with public acceptability.” The council’s new operations director Shaun Morley said: “We are trying to get to a position where we reduce waste and increase recycling.” Currently most households in the borough use 240-litre black bins for waste that cannot be recycled.
Bannside TUV Councillor Timothy Gaston said: “This council should be looking after the ratepayers in Mid and East Antrim . I do not believe that until this chamber makes a decision to go to 180 (litre bins), we should be encouraging a government department to go down that way. “We are just after inflicting a ten per cent rate increase on our ratepayers.
I am not in any way cutting the fro.
