Environment, Transport & Sustainability Committee

 

Agenda Item 42(d)(1)


 

Subject:                    Underground superbins – Notice of Motion

                                    Labour Group Amendment

 

Date of meeting:    15 November 2022

 

 

That the relevant changes are made to the motion as shown below in strikethrough and bold italics:


This Committee:

1)    Notes concerns of residents and businesses regarding the state of the city, including unsightly and graffitied communal rubbish bins, often overflowing litter, that attract rats;

2)    Notes the recent successful roll-out of Underground Super-bins by the Labour Council in Liverpool elsewhere in the UK, which can hold up to 5,000 litres of waste in containers below the street level, are capable of eliminating issues associated with wheelie and communal street bins such as rats, flies and litter, and have the potential to help local authorities work towards building ‘Zero Waste Cities’ and;

3)    Calls for a report into whether Underground Super-bins could be a solution to

some of the waste problems Brighton & Hove, and how Brighton & Hove could work towards becoming a ‘Zero Waste City’.

 

Proposed by: Cllr Wilkinson                                              Seconded by: Cllr Appich

As amended:

1)    Notes concerns of residents and businesses regarding the state of the city, including unsightly and graffitied communal rubbish bins, often overflowing litter, that attract rats;

2)    Notes the recent successful roll-out of Underground Super-bins by the Labour Council in Liverpool, which can hold up to 5,000 litres of waste in containers below the street level, are capable of eliminating issues associated with wheelie and communal street bins such as rats, flies and litter, and have the potential to help local authorities work towards building ‘Zero Waste Cities’ and;

3)    Calls for a report into whether Underground Super-bins could be a solution to

some of the waste problems Brighton & Hove, and how Brighton & Hove could work towards becoming a ‘Zero Waste City’.