Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council reject ‘pay as you throw’ bin trial

Jan 14 2009 by Carrie Catterall, Heswall News

ELLESMERE Port and Neston Borough Council is intending to shun a “pay-as-you-throw” trial for household waste that would see residents rewarded for recycling or charged for producing too much rubbish.

It joins more than 100 other councils in England who said in response to a survey that they were not planning to apply to take part in a pilot of incentive schemes, which forms part of the Climate Change Act.

Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council said the initiative would “damage the goodwill that has been built up over the years” with residents who were already participating in their successful recycling scheme.

Huw Irranca-Davies, the junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said: “Alternate weekly collections increase the amount that we recycle, but they are just one of the ways local authorities can cut the amount sent to landfill.”