Councils say they are in limbo as they await plans to impose consistent recycling rules in England.
The Labour leader of Cheshire East Council, Sam Corcoran, said he feared the announcement had been delayed because the government "realised how unpopular the changes will be and are seeking to implement them after the elections".Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said local authorities "have waited years for an agreed approach to collecting recyclable waste".
But he said ministers should "think it through given the initial local reaction from local authorities", adding, "I don't think they've listened to industry enough."The government has been working out how these waste reforms would work in practice since the Environment Act became law in 2021. Under the plans, councils will also need to collect food waste weekly, as well as offer a basic free service to remove garden waste.
She said there was "concern that when the response is released, the timetable for delivery will not have altered and could create an impossible situation to conceive of delivering a whole new service". In a system of commingled recycling, dry and clean materials - such glass, metal, paper, and plastics - can be put in one bin and collected by a single lorry."This suggests that existing collection systems are producing the strongest results," the group said.
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