Issue - meetings

Report and appendices attached.

The report before Members provided an overview of the rationale for developing a new East London Joint Resources and Waste Strategy (ELJRWS) that will set out how waste and recycling services in Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham and Redbridge would be developed leading up to and beyond the end of the existing waste disposal contract in 2027.

The East London Waste Authority had formally approved a set of Aims and Objectives for the joint strategy, and these were now being brought to Cabinet and the Cabinets in the other three Constituent Councils for consideration, to confirm that all five Partner Authorities were in accord.  The draft aims and objectives set out what it is the partners aimed to achieve together and provide a frame work within which the Partners can broadly seek to determine such factors as:

-       What East London’s waste was going to look like in the future;

-       How much of it there will be;

-       How much that can be reduced by;

-       How much could be diverted for reuse;

-       How much could be collected for recycling in a condition that meets market needs, and;

-       What treatment solutions would be used to deal with what was left over.

In response to a question relating to how ELWA would engage with residents and community groups etc, officers replied that once the document was in its final form then full public consultations would take place.

The Sub-Committee noted the report