Issue - meetings

Option

Pro

Con

Risk

Option 1

All households to be provided with a 23 litre caddy

Replace refuse collection vehicles with two compartment vehicles for separate food waste collection. Introduction of this option would be phased over 4 years in line with the replacement of existing collection vehicles.

Food waste can be collected separately from all households on a weekly basis.  There will be no increase in the number of vehicles collecting waste from households

This is a high cost option

In low participation areas the capacity of the food waste compartment of the vehicle could be under utilised, leading to operational inefficiencies

Option 2

Weekly collection of food waste.

All households to be provided with a 23 litre caddy.

For householders with green bins (approx 50,000) collect food waste mixed with garden waste on one week and use purpose built vehicle to collect food waste on ‘grey weeks’ from a 23 litre caddy .

For householders without green bins (approx 10,000) collect food waste each week from the 23 litre caddy.

This is the lower cost option, in the longer term, that provides for a weekly collection of food waste.

This option will cost more than Options 3 and 4 and it will require the services of an extra collection crew to visit every household on a fortnightly basis

Potential for customer dissatisfaction at the number of vehicles deployed for the waste collection service

Option 3

Collect food waste fortnightly on ‘green weeks’ providing an additional collection resource for households without gardens. Only households without green bins (approx 10,000) to be provided with a 23 litre caddy

This is the lowest cost option that provides a fortnightly collection of food waste from all households

Householders will have to keep food waste for two weeks.  Alternatively, they can also dispose of it in the grey bin as part of the residual waste stream.  The process at the waste treatment plant will then yield a lower grade compost

Customer dissatisfaction that food waste is collected only fortnightly leading to greater risk of attracting vermin and flies.

Option 4

Take no action.  Householders with green bins could dispose of food waste in these bins

There will be no extra cost if this option is taken up

Householders without gardens will have to continue disposing of food waste in the grey bin as part of the residual waste stream.  This will yield a lower grade compost from the treatment plant

Complaints and criticism of the scheme.  This could compromise the Council’s position with the Lancashire Waste Partnership and the County Council could discontinue the paying of the cost  ...  view the full minutes text for item 47