Following the recent decision by the Council to suspend some recycling collections, Labour Councillors have used social media to help inform residents and ask them for their questions on the changes. They will be asking the Council the questions below that residents want to be answered and report back to residents with the answers as soon as they get them.
Labour Councillors want to thank the Council’s key workers who have worked tirelessly through the pandemic and are now being ‘pinged’ as case rates rise again.
Key Questions
1. Have all residents been informed? Is there a plan for contacting those who don’t use social media and email?
2. Are weekly blue bag collections affected at all?
3. Will the Council allow for people to use other boxes to store recycling and then pick them up when they start collecting again?
4. Can people use bags to store additional bottles and cans?
5. Will the Council suspend the rule that recycling has to fit in the recycling box?
6. Will SBC issue additional recycling boxes on request at no cost to the resident?
7. Is there a limit to how many recycling boxes a household can have or how much recycling a household can generate for collection?
8. Will there be extended access to the Household Waste Recycling Centre – ie.more slots made available or increased opening hours?
9. Who is deciding which areas are having to wait an additional two weeks for their recycling to be collected, and what was the process behind that decision?
10. Will there be any local recycling points be made available such as in Village Centres that people can use?
11. Has the option of temporary HGV drivers been investigated?
12. Has an environmental and social impact assessment been completed for this decision?
13. Will the Council’s recycling rate be affected by this decision, and will all recycling being put out for collected currently get recycled as usual?
14. Is there a contingency plan in place if more staff have to self-isolate? What will be the next service affected?
As soon as they receive answers to these questions, they will be posting them on social media and trying to let residents know.
