Eric Pickles has promised a Conservative Government will help deliver weekly rubbish collections.
The Shadow Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government unveiled a series of proposals to help the local environment and improve services to family homes, including:
- Changing Whitehall policy so that there is an expectation that councils should offer full weekly collections, reversing Labour’s policy of bin cuts
- Offering central funding to all councils for a proper weekly collection, as well as comprehensive recycling collections
- Scrapping Gordon Brown’s plans for new bin taxes
Eric said, “Conservatives believe that decent rubbish collections are a vital front-line council service to help protect the local environment and public health.”
And he stressed, “We will make it easier for families to go green and increase recycling by working with households, not punishing them with heavy-handed bin taxes, bin cuts and bin fines.”