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Council bosses plan shake-up of Stirling's waste collection system in bid to save £500,000

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Published date12 September 2023
Publication titleDaily Record, The / Sunday Mail: Web Edition Articles (Scotland)
Trade unions and the workforce are said to have been in talks with management to provide their own take on what could be improved with the service -which costs more per household than that of any other council in Scotland

But bosses haven’t ruled out the potential for the changes to spark “localised industrial action”.

Councillors on the environment, transport and net zero committee last week were told by the authority’s legal team they could only ‘note’ the changes -which had been drawn up by managers following the findings of a cross party working group looking at the waste service -as they were operational matters which were delegated to officials.

While there will be no changes to the four-weekly frequency of collection for grey, blue and green bins, or the fortnightly frequency of collection for brown bins, most households will see a change to their current collection days.

The current seven-day collection service with two shift patterns will change to a four-day collection service, Tuesday to Friday, with one shift pattern, for the majority of waste collection staff.

Councillors did amend the...

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