Plans for Denbighshire County Council to significantly reduce its use of single-use plastics have taken a step forward.
Members
of the council’s Performance Scrutiny Committee have agreed proposals drawn up
by a cross-party group of councillors to reduce the use of plastics within council offices, following a Notice of Motion approved by the Full
Council.
These
proposals will now be put to Full Council in January 2020.
Proposals
include the following within the council’s office buildings; no longer
providing plastic water cups and single use paper/plastic cups for hot drinks
and the removal of water coolers, automated hot drink machines and vending
machines.
A
campaign will also be launched to encourage everyone who comes to the three
main Council offices to `bring their own cup’.
Graham
Boase, the council’s Corporate Director, said: “Protecting the environment is a
priority for the Council under its Corporate Plan and this project focuses on
reducing the amount of single-use plastic within Council offices as well as
showing leadership within the wider community.
“These
actions will benefit the environment by reducing and avoiding the use of
plastics in Council offices, as an example by just ending the provision of
plastic cups at water coolers will see 140,000 fewer cups being used over the
next ten years.”
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