Contact: Adrian Lee, ext 7004 email: [email protected]

1. Summary

1.1 The following decisions are sought:

(i) That the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy be agreed and the preferred option, as attached, be supported in principle.

(ii) That the Director of Environment be authorised, in consultation with the Executive Member for Environment: South Hampshire and Resource Management, to agree any minor amendments to the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy to take account of changes required arising from the publication of the revised National Waste Strategy and Project Integra Board discussions.

(iii) That a full financial assessment of the preferred option, including detailed research and business case studies for the development of any new systems or processes required for the development and implementation of the preferred option, be pursued through the Project Integra Annual Business Plan process.

(iv) The County Council notes the importance of encouraging residents, businesses and collection authorities to support the Strategy by participating in recycling and reuse activities and suggests an additional policy, with appropriate supporting text, to provide for the continuation of Project Integra's Behavioural Change Strategy.

1.2 The Executive Member for Environment: South Hampshire and Resource Management recommends this proposal.

1.3 The Environment Policy Review Committee considered this item on 16 March 2006. Members' comments will be reported orally at the meeting.

2. Reason

2.1 These decisions support Aims 2 and 5 (Stewardship of the Environment and Improving Services) of the Corporate Strategy by increasing re-use, recycling, and recovery of waste and natural resources in Hampshire.

3. Other Options Considered and Rejected

3.1 Taking no action.

4. Conflicts of Interest Declared by the Decision Maker or Other Executive Member Consulted - None.

5. Dispensation granted by the Standards Committee - Not applicable.

6. Reason(s) for the Matter being dealt with if Urgent - Not applicable.

Approved by: ..................................... Date: ...................................

Councillor T K Thornber

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The Preferred Option has the following features:

1. Household Collections

Kerbside collections from dwellings of a wide range of materials, including paper, cans, plastic bottles, glass and textile; promote home composting of green waste and the use of food digesters for bio-waste and facilitate provision of enhanced facilities at Household Waste Recycling Centres for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment.

2. Commercial Recycling

Provide and/or facilitate collection and processing capacity to optimise the collection of recyclables from the commercial sector (recyclables that are similar in nature to those arising from the municipal waste stream).

3. Waste Growth

Seek to reduce the growth of domestic waste to 1% or less by 2010 and to 0.5% by 2020.

4. Treatment of Residual Waste

Provide thermal treatment (energy from waste) for at least 420,000 tonnes per annum (the current capacity in Hampshire) with excess residual waste being sent to landfill in the short term and in the longer term being dealt with by further treatment (biological, thermal, physical or chemical) when such facilities have had time to be brought `on stream'.

5. Landfill

In the longer term pre-process all household waste with residues only being sent to landfill.