Issue - meetings

At this point in the meeting, members of the public who registered their wish to speak regarding an item on the agenda or an issue within the Executive’s remit can do so.  The deadline for registering is 10:00 am on Monday 12 June 2006.

It was reported that there had been two registrations to speak at the meeting under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme, both in relation to agenda item 6 (Revised Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy).

Ivana Jakubkova spoke on behalf of York Residents Against Incineration (YRIAN) and handed in a petition, signed by 400 residents, calling on the Council to “abandon plans for incineration of York’s Municipal Solid Waste”.  She expressed disappointment that the recycling targets in the Joint Strategy had not been set at a higher level and asked that the Strategy be revised to include recycling targets of 75% by the year 2020 and to rule out incineration as a method of waste disposal.

John Cossham spoke as a member of YRAIN and of York Rotters.  He suggested that the Joint Strategy be amended to include a commitment to a range of non-combustive waste disposal technologies, including anaerobic digestion, composting and increased recycling.  He noted that a number of local authorities were committed to non-combustive methods, due to the problems of finding a suitable site for incinerators and the time this would take.