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  • Effective Working Partnerships (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Lynne Featherstone
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2001
    It seems to me that public participation is fundamental to achieving, for example, recycling targets and we'll go into that figure in a minute. So how are you going to work with the boroughs and other groups to publicise the benefits of recycling and motivate the public to participate?

  • Effective Working Partnerships (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Lynne Featherstone
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2001
    Concentrating on financial incentives, which is something you mention in the strategy, is probably not what I think would be the best way forward. It seems to me that it would be helpful if the use of community and voluntary groups were encouraged. For example, I know in Suffolk they've started a composting scheme, a very little group who do very useful things and form part of what you're saying is the alternative. If there were enough little groups doing enough alternatives then the incineration or the presumption against might be presumed a bit quicker. What I'm saying is, what...

  • Effective Working Partnerships (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Lynne Featherstone
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2001
    To be honest you seem a bit hazy on it as if it hasn't really grabbed hold of you yet as an idea. So when are you going to come back with that as a proposal to the chair of the Environment Committee?

  • Effective Working Partnerships (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Lynne Featherstone
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2001
    I am sure the chair of the Environment Committee will give you a lot of help. Can I move on now to what I'd see as - it has been touched on - the poverty of ambition in terms of the recycling targets? Did they lack ambition? Was it really because you were scared of the response from the boroughs or you thought you would put them into too difficult a position? Or did you not think it might be better to take a lead on this issue which is very difficult? And also the other thing I want to...

  • Effective Working Partnerships (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Lynne Featherstone
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2001
    With the Single Waste Authority that the Mayor is going to support, how is that going to be taken forward at this point if he is to establish the Single Waste Authority?