John H Reid Strategy Officer

01389 737434

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[FOI #595 email]

30 May 2008

Dear Mr. Manderson

Freedom of Information Request

Recycling

Information Requested

West Dunbartonshire Council received your request for information on 27 May 2008 relating to the following topic. You wrote:

What is the rate of recycling in West Dunbartonshire and,

What measures does WDC plan on taking to increase this figure?

We hold information requested by you and list it below to you under the terms of this Freedom of Information request:

The unaudited recycling performance of West Dunbartonshire Council for 2007/08 is 32.3%. This has still to be ratified by SEPA who are the auditing body for waste recycling under The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2005.

Waste and Transport Services will be operating a pilot fortnightly collection service for dry recyclate at 12000 households, from August 2008 until January 2009. The pilot scheme will allow the Council to assess the viability of rolling an enhanced recycling programme out to all relevant households to increase recycling performance.

Under section 15 of the Act, duty to provide advice and assistance we add the following:

More information on recycling within WDC can be found on the WDC website, using the link below

http://www.wdcweb.info/environment/waste-services/news/

This information has been disclosed in terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Documents disclosed to you may be subject to copyright laws. By providing these documents West Dunbartonshire Council does not waive copyright nor does it create or provide a right to publish, disclose, reproduce or alter these documents without consent of those parties holding the copyright.

Review Procedure

If you are dissatisfied with the way in which West Dunbartonshire Council has dealt with your request, you are entitled to require the council to review its decision. Please note that in order for a review to take place, you must:

address your review request to the Head of Legal, Administrative & Regulatory Services:

Stephen Brown

Head of Legal, Administrative & Regulatory Services

West Dunbartonshire Council

Council Offices

Garshake Road

Dumbarton

G82 3PU

Email: [email address]

Fax: 01389 737 870

Staff not involved in the original decision will handle the review. You will receive notice of the result of your review within 20 working days. It will explain the findings of the review as well as details of how to appeal to the Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner if you are dissatisfied with the review decision reached by West Dunbartonshire Council.

If you have any further queries about this process, please contact John Reid.

Yours sincerely

Jeff Stobo

Manager of Strategy