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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 09, 2016

MOTION NO. 2

MOTION: Councillor S. Holland

"That the Chief Executive to introduce extra bottle bank clearances over the Christmas period. The bank filled up and every one in the county had illegal dumping at the sites as a result of this."

REPORT:

The Council's glass recycling service provider, RehabGlassco, is responsible for keeping the bring sites in the County fully and properly serviced at all times and this includes increasing the frequency of service at times such as the Christmas and New Year holiday period when such an increase in service is required.  In recent years the contractor resumed service on December 26th, as it had been found that the recycling sites were being heavily used from that day onwards.  On this occasion however this did not happen, the contractor did not resume service until Monday December 28th at which time problems had begun to develop.  This decision of the contractor was not notified to the Council, we would not have allowed it to occur had we been given prior notification.  In addition to this a number of sites were not serviced between Christmas and New Year, these sites were eventually serviced on or after Monday January 4th.  Again this decision was taken by the contractor and was not notified to the Council in advance.  No problems were experienced at those sites which were serviced between Christmas and New Year. It is clear from previous years that all sites require servicing between Christmas and New Year, and this will be required from the contractor in future years. 

These issues have been raised with the service provider and a meeting is due to take place on the matter on Monday February 9th to ensure that no such issues arise again.