Uncertain fate for 15,000 bins caught up in politics

28 May 2008

Political upheaval at Wear Valley District Council has left 15,000 new bins mothballed while the new leaders of the authority decide what to do with them.

At present, they are being stored in a field at a cost to the authority of £1,250 a month, until politicians at the County Durham council reach a decision.

In 2006/07, the controlling Labour group proposed changing to fortnightly bin collections, with landfill waste collected one week, and recyclable waste the other. Labour went ahead with plans to spend £560,000 on 30,000 twin wheelie bins and ordered the first 15,000 from Otto Environmental Services.

That support was withdrawn before last year’s local elections, which left the authority under no overall control, and the plan was put on ice. But the bins had already been ordered and when the first half of the 30,000 consignment was delivered they had to be put into storage.

Now the Liberal Democrats, who took control at this month’s local elections, have promised a quick decision on what it intends to do with the surplus bins.

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