A CHESHIRE East councilor criticized the agency for providing plastic bottles of water at meetings, calling on them to end the use of single-use plastic.
Cllr Kate Parkinson (Con) has also asked for information about the amount of plastic waste the community generates itself and she wants the bottles to be banned from all community recreational centers.
Speaking at the full council meeting on Wednesday at the Crewe Lifestyle Center, the High Legh City Council said, “In 2019 this council agreed to move to zero carbon by 2025 and has put in place a program of measures to meet this deadline.
“One of the easiest ways to reduce our carbon footprint and drastically reduce our potential to pollute the environment with non-biodegradable plastic would be to stop using single-use plastic items.
“I noticed that in many meetings, single-use plastic bottles are placed on our desks. I would have thought that in the Council one of the first changes in our efforts to protect the environment would be to stop this. ”
She added, “I have Ansa. asked [the council’s wholly-owned company responsible for waste collection] To provide data on the amount of plastic waste the Cheshire East Council uses in its operations and I am still waiting for that information. ”
Plastic water bottles have been made available to city councils at some meetings in recent months – but glass bottles are sometimes used.
At the Wednesday meeting where Cllr. Parkinson’s to single-use plastic was on the agenda, there were none.
Cllr Parkinson said, “I am pleased to see that the full council papers that arrived last week asked all members to bring their own water to this meeting.
“However, I would also like to point out that the water boxes we received today, if we want, are actually worse than single-use plastic bottles.
“There are so few recycling centers that can separate the paper from the aluminum inside and the cardboard and plastic that hold it together. Therefore, recycling is even more difficult than with plastic bottles.
“We have to be responsible for ourselves and bring our own bottles.”