166/2008 The Cabinet agreed 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.
167/2008 The Cabinet agreed not to accept garden waste if placed
within domestic residual waste but accept only as part of the
garden waste collection scheme.
168/2008 The Cabinet agreed to offer a second brown bin for
composting garden waste at a cost to be paid by the
householder.
169/2008 The Cabinet agreed 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.
170/2008 The Cabinet agreed to adopt 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).
171/2008 The Cabinet agreed to the incorporation of separately
priced items within the street cleaning contract to cover traffic
management and weed control.
172/2008 The Cabinet agreed to 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.
173/2008 The Cabinet agreed to continue with the current free bulky
waste collection of one free collection every six months.
174/2008 The Cabinet agree to 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.
175/2008 The Cabinet agreed to 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.
176/2008 The Cabinet agreed to 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.
177/2008 The Cabinet agreed 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.
178/2008 The Cabinet agreed option 4f as the collection option for
the new contract(s) taking account of the comments of the community
and value for money 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.