Issue - meetings

Report of Assistant Director: Environmental Services

Purpose of report

To gain the support and the endorsement of the Executive regarding the Oxfordshire Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy (JMWMS).

Recommendations

The meeting is recommended:

1.1         To note the contents and the challenges of the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy.

1.2         To adopt the Joint Management Waste Management Strategy to guide the delivery of waste management services in the Council.

Resolved

(1)          That the contents and the challenges of the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy be noted.

(2)          That the Joint Management Waste Management Strategy to guide the delivery of waste management services in the Council be adopted.

The Assistant Director: Environmental Services submitted a report to gain the support and the endorsement of the Executive regarding the Oxfordshire Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy (JMWMS).

Resolved

(1)            That the contents and the challenges of the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy be noted.

(2)            That the Joint Management Waste Management Strategy to guide the delivery of waste management services in the Council be adopted.

Reasons

The Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy (JMWMS) is supported by the other five Oxfordshire authorities and fits in with the new National Resource and Waste Strategy.

The National Resource and Waste Strategy encourages waste partnerships to deliver the new strategy and this Oxfordshire JMWMS document is important to deliver this new strategy and the lowest cost to the Oxfordshire taxpayer.

Alternative options

Option 1: To adopt the Oxfordshire Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy.

Option 2: To reject the Oxfordshire Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy and ask officers to reconsider the strategy.