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[Report of the Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods. To be introduced by the Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods.]

This report presents Haringey’s Reduction and Recycling Plan (RRP) for approval.  Production of an RRP is a requirement of the Mayor of London's Environment Strategy and applies to all London boroughs.

The Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods introduced Haringey’s Reduction and Recycling Plan (RRP) for approval. Production of an RRP was a requirement of the Mayor of London's Environment Strategy and applied to all London boroughs

The Cabinet Member informed that London Boroughs had a statutory duty to act in general conformity with the London Environment Strategy prepared by the Mayor of London. The London Environment Plan required London boroughs to produce a Recycling and Reduction Plan (RRP) to set out how they each would contribute to the Mayor of London's Environment strategy targets and comply with minimum service standards. This was required to be submitted by 20th December 2019. The Council's submission was contained in the appendix to the report. Section 5 outlined the Mayor of London's Environment Strategy and its objectives. Section 4.1.4 of the report illustrated the Key Mayoral requirements and the Council's compliance, which included the Council complying with a weekly food waste collection; carrying out the collection of the six main dry materials; being on track to achieve 45% recycling rate by 2025.

The Cabinet Member noted that as well as agreeing this submission, Members were being asked to agree changes to the Borough Plan. Section 4.2 outlined those changes. As there could be changes to the Recycling and Reduction Plan based on feedback from the GLA, Members were being asked to delegate those changes to the Director of Neighbourhoods and Environments to implement. Possible changes were highlighted at section 4.3. However, the Council had preliminary feedback from the GLA which can be found in section 8. The Council was also conducting an external review of recycling, funded by the GLA, details of which can be seen in section 9.

The Cabinet Member highlighted that stage one of the review had been completed and stage was due to be completed in January 2020.

The Cabinet Member asked Member to agree the report and its recommendations, which sought Cabinet to:

• Submit the recycling and Reduction Plan to the GLA;
• Agree to amend the Borough Plan to update the reduction in households waste targets; and
• Delegate authority to the Director (in consultation with the Cabinet Member) to make changes to the Recycling and Reduction Plan if feedback from the GLA required it.

[The Leader took the Chair at 20.47]

In response to questions from Councillor Dennison, the following information was provided:

• Regarding the recycling rate dropping to 32.9%, the Cabinet Member noted stricter legislative requirements had come into force on what was acceptable to be recycled and, as a consequence, a large amount of the recycling by the Council had been rejected. The Council was looking at ways to promote the education of residents to only include from household waste recycling products which were acceptable to be recycled.
• Regarding fly tipping, the Cabinet Member stated there was no conclusive evidence to show this had increased overall and noted there were times during the year where fly tipping was more prevalent. Further, the Council was reducing the cost of bulky  ...  view the full minutes text for item 111