Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration.

The report provides an update on the environmental campaign which was designed to achieve a level of behaviour change, with a borough wide communication campaign to promote positive behaviours and more focused and localised campaigns predominantly with Stockport Homes designed to increase recycling within neighbourhoods where more can be done.

The Scrutiny Committee is recommended to comment on and note the report.

Officer contact: Adam Forbes on 0161 474 3680 or email: adam.forbes@stockport.gov.uk

The Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing an update on the environmental campaign which was designed to achieve a level of behaviour change, with a boroughwide communication campaign to promote positive behaviours and which was more focused on localised campaigns, predominantly with Stockport Homes, designed to increase recycling within neighbourhoods where more can be done.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         The potential for the introduction of on street recycling bins to replace existing litter bins was discussed.  In response it was stated that this had worked well in some areas and conveyed the right message in terms of getting people to think about recycling, however the quality of the recycling was often poor.

·         Posters were currently being put up in places where dog fouling had been an issues to encourage dog owners to pick up their animal’s waste.  It was stated that this would be followed up with enforcement for those people who continued to allow their dog to foul on the street without disposing of it.

·         It was suggested that there needed to be publicity around any successful enforcement activities.

·         It was requested that information relating to the success of the dog fouling initiative be circulated to members of the scrutiny committee once such data was available.

·         It was commented that Crookilley Way was consistently subject to littering from passing vehicles, and consideration should be given to the use of enforcement cameras as a means of tackling this.

·         It was not always possible to provide the full range of recycling facilities at all Council premises as it was not efficient to send vehicles to collect small amounts of waste for recycling. 

·         There needed to be a focus on the minimisation of plastic waste.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.