The return of brown bin tours to Barnet called into question UK News

The return of the brown bin rounds to Barnet has been questioned after advisers revealed the decision was subject to government consultation.

The consultation, published by the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, indicates that local authorities may have to set up separate collections of food waste by the 2024-25 fiscal year at most. late.

This led one advisor to claim that the commitment to bring back the collections had become “even weaker”.

Barnet Council has revealed plans to stop brown bin collections in 2018, saying the move would save £ 300,000 per year.

After London Mayor Sadiq Khan threatened to overturn the decision, Tory advisers voted to suspend the towers – and the council then revealed plans to reintroduce them following a service review.

In a point by a member at an environment committee meeting on Wednesday, Cllr Claire Farrier (Labor, East Finchley) called for collections to resume as soon as possible.

Cllr Farrier said: “We are asking for a firm commitment that food waste collections will be reinstated and a report to come back to the next committee on how this can be done.”

Responding to the call, Cllr Peter Zinkin (Curator, Childs Hill) claimed that science has shown that producing energy by incinerating waste has the same environmental impact as anaerobic digestion.

He said separate food waste tours were “extremely expensive” and turnout rates in apartments were “extremely low”.

But Cllr Zinkin added that the government has launched a consultation on recycling consistency and may ask local authorities to conduct separate collections of food waste.

“Once we have the environmental bill and we know what we need to do, when and what additional resources the government is going to provide to help us do it – now is the time to make the recommendation on. what to do next, ”he added.

Cllr Alan Schneiderman (Work, Woodhouse) said the majority of councils in London had separate food waste collections and claimed they were better for the environment.

“It’s a bit worrying that tonight the commitment to bring back (the separate collections of food waste) has become even weaker than it was,” he added.

Cllr Schneiderman took issue with the council’s claim that suspending collections will ultimately save money, saying discarded garbage vehicles should be brought back and brown bins replaced.

Cllr Zinkin said the officials who created the government consultation appeared to have a “mythical English village” as their ideal garbage collection scenario, with each household having room for multiple garbage containers.

“I just don’t think the scenario is particularly relevant to London, and we will say so in response to the consultation,” he added.

Labor voted in favor of Cllr Farrier’s article, but it was defeated when Tory committee members voted against it.

Geoff Mee, the council’s executive director of environment, said he would brief the committee on the results of the consultation.