Subject: Improving Textile Recycling

Date of meeting: 1 February 2024

Proposer: Councillor Ivan Lyons

Seconder: Councillor Anne Meadows

Ward(s) affected: All

Notice of Motion

Conservative Group

This Council:

1) Notes the importance of recycling textiles for the environment and for the City, with profits from the recycling currently split 60-40% between the Council and local charities.

2) Notes that in November the City Environment, South Downs and the Sea Committee approved 54 additional containers for carton recycling and 21 new containers for WEEE recycling, but it did not also increase the number of locations or containers for textile recycling.

3) Further notes that residents have reported textile recycling containers overflowing with the textiles trying to be recycled, increasing the risk of contamination and fly tipping.

This counciltherefore resolves to:

4) Request an officer report brought to the City Environment, South Downs and the Sea Committee outlining options to increase the number of textile recycling points across Brighton and Hove and to increase the regularity of collection of textile recycling to reduce issues of recycling containers filling up.