Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Environment and Housing which provides an update on the progress made in developing and implementing the strategy for communications and engagement in relation to waste and recycling. The report also sets out the principles to guide the approach to securing behaviour change, from education through to enforcement action.

The Director of Environment and Housing submitted a report which provided an update on the progress made in developing and implementing the communications and engagement strategy in relation to waste and recycling, and which set out principles to guide the approach and secure behaviour change.

Responding to a Member’s enquiries, the Board received further information on the wider context as to the reasons why the communications programme was being undertaken, which had the overriding aim of increasing recycling levels across Leeds and promoting good practice around the management of domestic waste, both for the benefit of the city and the environment. 

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the progress made in delivering a programme of co-ordinated communications, marketing and engagement to provide the information, tools and services to support good waste and recycling habits, be noted;

(b)  That approval be given to the targeted use of enforcement powers for persistent and unreasonable waste and recycling behaviours.