Cheshire East Council’s plans to raise funds appears to have hit the skids with nearly half of the residents needed rejecting the scheme.
So far just 56,000 homes have signed up to the green waste collection scheme which requires households paying £56.00 per bin, per year.
The council needs 90,000 residents to hit its target.
Many of those rejecting the scheme believe that once the council starts charging for anything the costs will inevitably rise year on year.
Of course the collection vehicles and staff will more often than not have to travel the same routes as previously, but now could be collecting just one or two green bins where once 10 or 20 were collected.
Those rejecting the scheme will either take their green waste to the local tip – or even fly tip their waste.
Both of these scenarios could have a dramatic and undesirable impact on air and land pollution.
In a statement to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Cllr Warren said: “As set out in the council’s adopted medium-term financial strategy, our garden waste recycling scheme has a total income target of £4.05m, with £900,000 of this income budgeted for in 2023/24.
“So far, almost 56,000 households have subscribed to the scheme – against the 90,000 subscriptions needed to meet the total MTFS income target – which equates to an income of around £3.15m to date.”
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