Issue - meetings

Further to minute 7 of the Cabinet meeting held on 11 October 2022, consideration was given to a report which provided an update on the progress made to date on the Council’s Waste Strategy for 2021-2025, together with the recent roll out of the interim kerbside waste changes. 

The Authority’s strategy set out a comprehensive programme of works to deliver service transformational change in line with its carbon reduction ambitions.  An overview of the interim position was provided to the Cabinet, which detailed the changes made to the kerbside waste collections which had commenced on 23 January 2023.  The Cabinet was advised that the Authority aimed to introduce a longer-term service change to achieve the Blueprint collection methodology by 2024, which would include enhancements to the current fleet provision.

Consideration was also given to the waste management policy appended to the report which provided a consolidated document outlining the Authority’s delivery of refuse and recycling collection services, its network of Household Waste Recycling Centres and Re-use facilities in accordance with the Authority’s strategic objective of improving kerbside domestic waste collections to increase recycling rates in Carmarthenshire.

Reference was made to the significant financial penalties that would be imposed should the Authority fail to meet the statutory recycling targets.  Furthermore, in considering the Authority’s moral obligations to reduce its carbon footprint, the Cabinet acknowledged the efforts made thus far to move towards a system based upon the principles of a circular economy.

UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED that: