| The Regeneration, Community and Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee requested that Cabinet agree the following recommendations:
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| | (a) | agree to the contract payment mechanism for the collection of refuse and recyclable materials from domestic properties being based upon the number of properties in Medway established through the Council Tax database;
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| | (b) | not accept garden waste if placed within domestic residual waste but accept only as part of the garden waste collection scheme;
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| | (c) | consider offering a second brown bin for composting garden waste at a cost to be paid by the householder;
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| | (d) | accept that all recycling containers become the responsibility of the council to maintain and replace unless it is due to the fault of the collection contractor;
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| | (e) | consider adopting a policy requiring developers to pay for all waste and recycling containers for new residential properties. This may be done under the provisions of Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended);
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| | (f) | agree to the incorporation of separately priced items within the street cleaning contract to cover traffic management and weed control;
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| | (g) | continue to obtain recompense from the County for imported household waste and to continue to seek redress over the LATS permits rather than introduce a resident permit system to prevent use of the Council's HWRCs by householders from outside the borough as proposed by White, Young and Green;
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| | (h) | continue with the current free bulky waste collection of one free collection every six months;
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| | (i) | combine the requirements for clinical waste with those of other councils that are interested in a joint arrangement where this is facilitated by the termination dates of their contracts;
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| | (j) | deal with refuse, recycling and garden waste collections and street cleaning as an individual contract but that the management of the HWRCs and the collection of clinical waste arrangements be separated to invite maximum interest from bidders specialising in these services;
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| | (k) | make provision for the ownership of residual waste and recycling materials collected to be retained by the Council except for certain recycling materials collected at the HWRCs that may help to incentivise the recycling opportunities at these sites;
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| | (l) | agree that the duration of the collection contracts continue to be for 7 years with an allowance to extend if and where appropriate by up to a further two years;
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| | (m) | agree Option 4f as the collection option for the new contract(s) taking account of the comments of the community and value for money and also with additional wording as follows:
"Based on weekly collection of refuse in a wheeled bin where such bins can be accommodated by the resident, if not by using a sack, a fortnightly collection of garden and kitchen waste in a wheeled bin (kitchen waste being placed in the normal refuse in intermediate weeks) and recycling collected fortnightly in a wheeled bin with glass collected at the same time from a separate box."
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