DID YOU KNOW?

At the East Riding Council's October meeting, the Conservative-controlled council rejected a Liberal Democrat motion asking for a review of the waste policy and re-affirmed their commitment to the current contract which still includes incineration.

This vote by the Conservatives was in spite of the fact that the bid for PFI funding for the incinerator has been dropped, ostensibly on the grounds of the sources of finance having dried up. We think the fact that the European Commission has judged the bid to be UNLAWFUL may also have had something to do with it.

Constituency Chairman, Malcolm Lynn, said "There should be no doubt that a new strategy is urgently needed. The East Riding is one of only three Councils in the Yorkshire and Humber region that failed to meet government targets for diverting bio-degradable waste from landfill last year; it is also one of the worst performing in the whole country in terms of residual waste arisings per head of population and its "successful initiatives" have actually been proven and practiced by leading councils elsewhere in the country for at least the last five years.