Issue - meetings

(David Beaver, Head of Waste Management and Business Services was in attendance for this item)

(1)          Miss Carey (Cabinet Member for the Environment) introduced the report which asked the cabinet committee to consider and endorse or make recommendations on a proposed decision to enter into a new contractual arrangement for the collection and processing of textiles and shoes disposed of at Kent’s household waste recycling centres (HWRCs). She said the commodity market for textiles had collapsed and the authority had a choice, which was reflected in the cost of the contract, to take a risk that the market would recover, or pay for certainty.  She was proposing to take a risk in anticipation that the market would recover.  Mr Beaver said figures published in September indicated that textiles were now fetching £40 per tonne and that the market was beginning to recover.

(2)          RESOLVED that the proposed decision of the Cabinet Member for the Environment to delegate authority to the Director of Highways, Transportation and Waste to enter into a new four-year contractual arrangement (with a one-year extension) for the collection and processing of textiles and shoes collected at the HWRCs across the county to cover KCC’s requirement as the waste disposal authority be endorsed.