Fortnightly bin collections proposed for Pembrokeshire

4:58pm Thursday 28th February 2013 in News

Pembrokeshire County Council is proposing to reduce its black bag and glass waste collection service to fortnightly.

Members of the Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee will discuss the proposal next week.

At present general black bag waste, which ends up in landfill sites, is collected once a week – along with food and orange bag recyclable waste.

Food waste and orange bag waste will continue to be collected once a week.

A report to next week’s committee says that at present Pembrokeshire is one of only two local authorities in Wales that does not operate fortnightly black bag waste collections.

A change to a fortnightly collection service could reduce costs by an estimated £350,000 a year. It would also divert more rubbish into recycling bringing environmental benefits and enabling Pembrokeshire to meet its Welsh Government statutory recycling target of 58% by 2015.

“Faced with ever increasing costs in an environment of reducing funding and the need to meet the very challenging targets, there is an ongoing requirement to review what we do and how we do it to ensure that we are efficient and complaint with the statutory expectations upon us,” says the report.

If the Environment Overview & Scrutiny Committee next Thursday approves the proposal it will then go to Cabinet in April for a decision with a view to possible implementation in the Autumn.

 

Comments(27)

Welshman23 says...
5:25pm Thu 28 Feb 13

Here we go again cut services but our rates go up. Why should we put up with this local authority it's just one problem after another. My daughter lives in Cardiff where they have fortnightly black bin collections. In fairness the local authority supplied wheelie bins to accommodate the change, this has to be a consideration if the authority go down this road. Another problem in Cardiff if the wheelie bin lid is not closed they refuse to collect because of Health & Safety. One other point how much money has been paid to all the employees who have retired early in. 2012. PS do we still have a chief executive as he is very quiet or is he planning his exit with a handsome pay off. Our local authority representatives it's time to rebel and sort out the root of the problems within county hall.

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keithg1605 says...
7:13pm Thu 28 Feb 13

English councils where offered money to re introduce weekly collections, so why is Pembrokeshire going the opposite way, also to save 350k Pa jobs will inevitabley be lost so the refuse colllectors not only get a pay cut because of the pay review they will possibly loose their jobs as well, where will the cuts stop ?

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KeanJo says...
8:27pm Thu 28 Feb 13

What a load of rubbish!

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kevfromle says...
9:04pm Thu 28 Feb 13

Give us wheelie bins then or else it risks getting fly tipped!
Cheapskates!

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quentin says...
9:54pm Thu 28 Feb 13

Since the food bin and orange bag waste was introduced my black bag rubbish has more than halved. But wheelie bins would be necessary if a fortnightly black bag collection was introduced as my present standard sized dustbin would be too small, and the local fox and seagull population will have a field day.

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Flashbang says...
11:04pm Thu 28 Feb 13

Another poorly thought out money saver by some bean counter with no idea of what goes on in the real world. Dump your excess rubbish in the car park of the PCC, that might get their minds in the right place.

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Flashbang says...
11:10pm Thu 28 Feb 13

PS Give us the choice of getting rid of the CEO and keeping the weekly bin collection both of which cost roughly the same.

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Tina2 says...
6:50am Fri 1 Mar 13

Wheelie bins are ok if you have a side entrance but for those of us who don't????

There is no way I am going to try and get a wheelie bin through my house, I would have to move the freezer for a start.

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mike260672 says...
10:39am Fri 1 Mar 13

i have to agree with flashbang

how about leading by example and cut the disgusting level of wage of the CEO for a start

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ladybench says...
3:53pm Fri 1 Mar 13

Who is the useless artical that sits behind his desk and makes this up, ie nothing new just the easy way out time afer time, Every week its some i'll thought scheme.How did they ever get employed.

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Welshman23 says...
4:41pm Fri 1 Mar 13

Good point Tina2 what about people living in flats, fly tipping will cost more to sort than reducing the black bin collections.

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Welshman23 says...
4:43pm Fri 1 Mar 13

Flashbang wrote:
Another poorly thought out money saver by some bean counter with no idea of what goes on in the real world. Dump your excess rubbish in the car park of the PCC, that might get their minds in the right place.
Great idea you don't work for the council if not send your CV.

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keithg1605 says...
8:56pm Fri 1 Mar 13

The wheelie bin idea is a non starter Pembrokeshire National Parks will not allow streets in Tenby, Saundersfoot, etc full of wheelie bins left out all day until people return home from work in the evening, spoiling the area for tourists !

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KeanJo says...
9:07pm Fri 1 Mar 13

The library is full of books I don't want to read,I don't have any kids or grandchildren in school ,I don't use social services,I use the roads dodging the potholes. I use the refuse disposal service which is about to be halved.Why is this costing over £100 a month?

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Welshman23 says...
9:28pm Fri 1 Mar 13

KeanJo wrote:
The library is full of books I don't want to read,I don't have any kids or grandchildren in school ,I don't use social services,I use the roads dodging the potholes. I use the refuse disposal service which is about to be halved.Why is this costing over £100 a month?
Our money goes to pay for all the early retirement at county offices,the over paid councillors and all the compensation claims that have been paid. And the CEO SALARY

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Welshman23 says...
7:28am Sat 2 Mar 13

keithg1605 wrote:
The wheelie bin idea is a non starter Pembrokeshire National Parks will not allow streets in Tenby, Saundersfoot, etc full of wheelie bins left out all day until people return home from work in the evening, spoiling the area for tourists !
Good point Keith where are people in this area going to store their bags It seems that the increase in vermin will have to be considered.

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Get a grip says...
8:06pm Mon 4 Mar 13

Tina2 wrote:
Wheelie bins are ok if you have a side entrance but for those of us who don't????

There is no way I am going to try and get a wheelie bin through my house, I would have to move the freezer for a start.
Use your back passage

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Welegraph says...
7:18am Tue 5 Mar 13

I wonder how many of the people above who have commented realise that Pembrokeshire have the lowest council tax bands in Wales & if we wish to keep it that way then PCC have to look at ways of keeping its operating costs down.

Im sure, of course, that these people above would be amongst the first to comment if PCC had to increase its council tax to the same rate as other Local Authorities in Wales.

We cant have it both ways.

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Tttoommy says...
9:34am Tue 5 Mar 13

Welegraph wrote:
I wonder how many of the people above who have commented realise that Pembrokeshire have the lowest council tax bands in Wales & if we wish to keep it that way then PCC have to look at ways of keeping its operating costs down.

Im sure, of course, that these people above would be amongst the first to comment if PCC had to increase its council tax to the same rate as other Local Authorities in Wales.

We cant have it both ways.
so Pembs Press Office does something to earn it's bucks - next time please use your REAL NAMES.
Don't deny it - who in their right mind would comment that they are not paying enough council tax or that the services are too good. Will the WEestern Telegraph check the IP address where this message was sent from - it might make an interesting story - what next some one called B Parry-"Smith" complaining that the Chief Exec is paid a paltry sum (hardly £30k per annum more than the Prime Minister) for his great responsibilities and his salray should double

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Welegraph says...
9:56am Tue 5 Mar 13

Tttoommy wrote:
Welegraph wrote:
I wonder how many of the people above who have commented realise that Pembrokeshire have the lowest council tax bands in Wales & if we wish to keep it that way then PCC have to look at ways of keeping its operating costs down.

Im sure, of course, that these people above would be amongst the first to comment if PCC had to increase its council tax to the same rate as other Local Authorities in Wales.

We cant have it both ways.
so Pembs Press Office does something to earn it's bucks - next time please use your REAL NAMES.
Don't deny it - who in their right mind would comment that they are not paying enough council tax or that the services are too good. Will the WEestern Telegraph check the IP address where this message was sent from - it might make an interesting story - what next some one called B Parry-"Smith" complaining that the Chief Exec is paid a paltry sum (hardly £30k per annum more than the Prime Minister) for his great responsibilities and his salray should double
I don't agree with the high salary of the chief executive of PCC however I do not work for PCC in any way shape or form but I am an accountant & know that in order to keep costs down, other sacrifices have to be made.

By the way if you want to know where the IP address would show, it would be my personal residence.

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Kiwitaff says...
10:06am Tue 5 Mar 13

Pembs can have even lower tax rates if they get rid of their over paid CEO and let the Welsh Assembly take control of the Education Service just as they have done with other struggling council in Merthyr.

The people of Pembrokeshire deserve value for money, cutting front line services like refuse collection and closing toilets is a smoke screen to hide the incompetent senior management structure that has been there for nearly seventeen years.

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JThom says...
11:05am Tue 5 Mar 13

@ Tttoommy

Do you really think that tracking an IP Address would let the Westerntelegraph know who a person is?

You've been watching way too much Spooks!

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JThom says...
11:07am Tue 5 Mar 13

You do a reverse DNS (http://remote.12dt.
com/) on your own IP address and see.

The most info you'd get would be the Gateway you are connected to your ISP through!

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Tina2 says...
5:39pm Tue 5 Mar 13

Get a grip wrote:
Tina2 wrote:
Wheelie bins are ok if you have a side entrance but for those of us who don't????

There is no way I am going to try and get a wheelie bin through my house, I would have to move the freezer for a start.
Use your back passage
What back passage?

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Andrew Lye says...
8:56am Wed 6 Mar 13

The sooner the better. So much can be recycled and much of the stuff that goes into my black sack is the plastics from food packaging.
Food waste will still be collected weekly.

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Tttoommy says...
9:10am Wed 6 Mar 13

When I get a refund I'll recycle - until then I'll just dump everything in a plastic sack and drive my big automatic petrol car to the rubbish dump - sorry - "recycling" centre in Pemb dock

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Tttoommy says...
9:16am Wed 6 Mar 13

To JThom - bit of a joke, poor I admit

To Welegraph - I'm a retired accountant so I know that good senior management can be worth their high salaries IF they can cut out waste and make ppl work "cleverer" not harder.
Paying someone £200k just to allocate a budget handed to them is a F..... disgrace
Closing loos a necessity I'd have thought IF Pembs. want to be a tourist attraction and the relatively small savings made will back fire when even more businesses will go bust and not pay Council tax

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