Opposition councillors have highlighted the 14,000 green bins destroyed needlessly by Sheffield City Council. This week the Labour-run Council announced that the “charged-for” green bin service, previously offered to just part of the city, will be rolled out across Sheffield. However, the policy was announced more than nine months after it was first suggested by [...]
Tag Archives | Green Bins 
Council urged to bin policy and go back to the drawing board
Opposition councillors are urging Sheffield City Council to “go back to the drawing board” and rethink its policy on bins. The call follows a poll in The Sheffield Star that showed that 54% of local people believed the city’s new waste collection service wasn’t working. Liberal Democrat councillors believe a string of failures by the [...]
Announcement shows Government fund could have saved weekly bins
Labour-controlled Sheffield City Council have been left red-faced as the announcement of Government funds showed that money was available to save Sheffield’s weekly bin collections. Opposition Liberal Democrat councillors and Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, urged the Council to bid into the £250 million fund when it was launched in February [...]
Labour bins policy under fire as green waste recycling slumps
Labour councillors on Sheffield City Council have come under fire as their waste policy produced a slump in green waste recycling. Figures released by opposition councillors show a 30% reduction in green recycling in the city in the peak months of 2012. The figures, which look at the peak months of April to September, come [...]
Words but no action as 14,000 bins already on “bonfire of the bins”
Opposition councillors on Sheffield City Council have called on the Labour Cabinet to live up to its promises not to shred thousands of green bins. Earlier this year, Labour councillors announced as many as 30,000 green bins could be destroyed following their imposition of a £57.60 ‘garden tax’ if residents wanted to continue having their [...]
Lib Dems – working for you
Local Elections 2012
