Just days left to save weekly bin collections in Birmingham as reconvened Council AGM looms
With Birmingham City Council’s newly elected 101 Councillors reconvening, on Friday 6th June, to vote on who will be the new leader of the Council, Birmingham Local Conservatives are renewing their calls for weekly bin collections, that residents want to see remain, to be saved. One of the first decisions any new administration will have to take in their first few days, is to decide whether they will save weekly bin collections. A decision on this must be made this month.
The previous Labour administration in Birmingham put in place the introduction of fortnightly bin collections, with a starting date of this June.
However during the Birmingham Mail hustings only the Green party said they would go through with introducing fortnightly bin collections (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-labour-leaders-shock-admission-33827454 )
The paper reported at the time “Green Party local leader Julien Pritchard was the only one of the panelists who said his party would not support going back to weekly collections”.
Leader of the Local Conservatives Cllr Robert Alden said “any new administration in Birmingham must save weekly bin collections. This is going to be the first vital test of a new administration to see if they will keep the promises they made and are on the side of residents. While we were the only party to put a clear commitment to retaining weekly bin collections in our election manifesto, all but one party committed to saving weekly bin collections at hustings events. Therefore residents expect to see weekly bin collections saved. A new administration that allows fortnightly bin collections to go ahead will be breaking an election promise in their first few days”.
Robert added, “Birmingham is a city with tens of thousands of terrace houses. As we have seen when rubbish has gone uncollected for weeks on end during the strike, families simply sees rubbish piled up. It’s not acceptable, and a new administration must stop it by saving weekly bin collections and so help clean up the city.”
