Issue - meetings

(To receive a report by the Senior Commissioning Officer (Waste) which invites the Executive to endorse the proposed Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy and to recommend its adoption by the County Council at its meeting on 14 December 2018)

That the proposed Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy, as detailed at Appendix A to the report, be endorsed and recommended to the County Council at its meeting on 14 December 2018 that the said Strategy be formally adopted by the County Council, subject to the Strategy in the same form being formally adopted by all the waste collection authorities in Lincolnshire.

Consideration was given to a report by Matthew Michell (Senior Commissioning Officer (Waste)), which accompanied the final version of the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy (JMWMS),

The Executive Councillor for Commercial and Environmental Management presented the report to the Executive.  The Executive Councillor thanked the Senior Commissioning Officer (Waste) for his work on the JMWMS.

The Executive was asked to endorse the proposed JMWMS and to recommend its adoption by the County Council at its meeting on 14 December 2018.

The County Commissioner for Economy and Place advised that the JMWMS had been endorsed by the Lincolnshire Waste Partnership as being ready to go before each partner Council for formal adoption.  It had been prepared with the cooperation of all eight Lincolnshire councils, and had public support as evidenced through the consultation process. 

The preparation of the JMWMS had also been subject to Strategic Environmental Assessment and it was considered that it promoted the right balance between selecting the best environmental options and providing value for money.

The Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board advised that the Environment and Economy Scrutiny Committee had considered the revised draft of the JMWMS at its meeting on 18 September 2018 and had endorsed the revised draft strategy and supported the recommendation that it be adopted by the County Council on 14 December 2018.

It was highlighted that a green paper would be published in December 2018 concerning the potential introduction for taxing energy from waste facilities.  Furthermore, the Executive expressed its disappointment in this proposal as the tax should be applied to the producers of non-recyclables.

The Executive was advised that the food waste trial that was currently underway in certain areas of the county had proved to be a success.  Analysis would be undertaken on the trials impact of contamination rates.

RESOLVED

That the proposed Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy, as detailed at Appendix A to the report, be endorsed and recommended to the County Council at its meeting on 14 December 2018 that the said Strategy be formally adopted by the County Council, subject to the Strategy in the same form being formally adopted by all the waste collection authorities in Lincolnshire.