WBC Rubbish and Waste Inspection

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Dear Wirral Borough Council,

Please disclose any policy or procedure, or any custom or practice of officers of WBC who may for the benefit of information gathering for WBC check the rubbish and waste of residents within the boundaries of WBC.

Yours faithfully,

Pete Sheffield

InfoMgr, FinDMT, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

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Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your enquiry below. Please see our responses also below
and the attachment and I hope you find them of use.

We have a number of officers within the Council that do from time to
time visually check rubbish and waste to allow information to be
gathered for the purposes of education.

We also visit properties that have been reported by our collection
contractor as having contaminated recycling bins (i.e. the wrong
material in the recycling bin).

The procedure is as follows:

1) Contaminated bin reported by bin crew via the in cab computer system.

2) The Council send a standard education advice letter to the resident.
3) If the same information is reported again, the resident receives a
visit from one of the Councils Participation Officers and the officer
asks if they can look at the bin to offer advice.
4) Going forward, it is decided by the officer whether to issue further
advice letters and stickers in line with the Councils Household Waste
Collection and Recycling Enforcement Policy which is attached.

The above procedure does not actually touch or handle any of the waste;
it is purely a visual inspection.

The Council also do a number of specific targeted campaigns and also
investigate specific complaints of fly tipping or failure to comply with
the domestic waste policy, typically black bags dumped in entries. In
these cases we will handle the waste to look for evidence to link the
waste to a person or property.

Kind Regards
Jane Corrin
Information Manager
Wirral Council

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From: Pete Sheffield [mailto:[FOI #90623 email]]
Sent: 23 October 2011 21:31
To: InfoMgr, FinDMT
Subject: Freedom of Information request - WBC Rubbish and Waste
Inspection
Dear Wirral Borough Council,

Please disclose any policy or procedure, or any custom or practice
of officers of WBC who may for the benefit of information gathering
for WBC check the rubbish and waste of residents within the
boundaries of WBC.

Yours faithfully,

Pete Sheffield


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