John Pugh MP - Moving Southport Forward - MPs hold RUBBISH ENQUIRY

MPs hold RUBBISH ENQUIRY

Tuesday, 05 June 2007

MPs on the Select Committee for Communities and Local Government have begun on a major enquiry into rubbish collection, the different regimes and their effects. Topics to be included: -

The ways in which local authorities collect and measure waste.
Collection methods: the contribution made to waste minimisation by the timing, frequency and type of collection in both urban and rural areas and in areas characterised by differing housing types, such as flats.

Joint working, cost sharing and the potential for co-operation between waste collection authorities.
The contribution collection methods may make towards waste minimisation, effective recycling and the reduction of waste going to landfill and incineration.

Local MP John Pugh who is on the Select Committee hearing the evidence says:

"It will be good to see all the evidence properly laid out and systems rationally assessed.

"One given is that the councils and so council tax payers will have to find an extra £150 per head if we keep using landfill sites at the current rate.so the question we have to answer is what are the best ways to improve recycling and minimise waste.

"As an all-party Select Committee, we can only go by the evidence and what national and international comparisons show. We have to set aside party politics and argy bargy in the media over such issues and look at the plain facts as objectively as we can."

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