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Our waste strategy undergoes a formal consultation
and review process each year.
This ensure we take your local views on waste into account as part
of our overall plans to deal with North Somerset's waste
problems.
The amount of refuse we produce each year has been rising as the
number of people and households across the district continues to
increase.
We therefore need to improve our waste services and have developed
the waste strategy to help us achieve this aim.
So far two consultations have taken place - in 2004 and 2005 -
where individuals and local interest groups were invited to comment
on an updated draft of the waste strategy.
Subsequently, some of the ideas put forward by you have been
adopted into the strategy as part of the formal review process
which automatically follows each consultation and is approved by
full council.
This has led to the introduction of our green garden waste scheme,
the upgrading and improvement of our recycling banks sites and
recycling centres.
Between these formal review points our own information on
expenditure, future plans, targets and other key issues are also
used to update the strategy.
Waste Strategy Review 2004
We had the largest response we have ever seen for a consultation
with nearly 8000 responses to our waste questionnaire alone.
These were collected alongside your letters, comments made at
our programme of public meetings and comments made by our
list of consultees following the launch of the consultation in
June 2004.
Your
responses generally supported our 3Rs principle - to Reduce,
Reuse and Recycle our waste - and backed plans to introduce our
kerbside recycling and green garden waste services.
We subsequently changed our waste strategy as a result of this
response and presented the revised strategy to councillors at a
meeting in October 2004.
The plans were approved with the revised waste strategy launched in
March 2005.
You can view a full summary of the public response in the appendix
section of our downloadable Revised Waste Strategy 2005
document.
Waste Strategy Review 2005
The strategy is currently in the process of formal review.
A report including your views was presented to councillors in
September 2005.
The revised document is due for publication in soon before the
whole process begins again in November 2006. |