Reading Liberal Democrats

Local Liberal Democrat campaigner Cllr Gareth Epps has already put Reading’s controversial new waste collection under the microscope at the first Council environment meeting of the new year. This contrasts with Reading’s Tories who have broken their election promise to ‘review’ the scheme and then said nothing.

Now a new report issued by the all-party House of Commons Local Government Select Committee has issued a report critical of the scheme. The report can be read online by following this link: Online Report

You can sign the Lib Dem petition for more recycling in Reading which can be found here: Glass Recycling Petition

Commenting on the all-party Local Government Select Committee’s report which criticises alternate weekly waste collection, Cllr Gareth Epps said,

“This report shows Reading residents were right when they said that fortnightly collections were less appropriate for the more built-up parts of town.

We want the Council to invest in recycling, pick up food and glass waste from the kerbside, and sort out collections in the most crowded areas.

Recycling is our top priority. We want to see further investment in recycling, not the Labour approach of just expanding kerbside collection to residents who should have had it in the first place.

Lib Dem-led Oxford City Council has shown how it should be done. The report from MPs shows that Reading Borough Council must do better. I will be keeping this issue high on the Council agenda until it is sorted.”

Cllr Gareth Epps is the Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson on Reading Borough Council and Parliamentary campaigner for Reading East.