Conwy's four-weekly bin collection plans get 'no' vote

Plans to collect refuse bins in Conwy county once every four weeks have been voted against by a council committee.

On Monday, the council's economy and place scrutiny committee voted in favour of keeping the existing three-weekly collections.

Some members of the committee voiced concerns fewer collections would lead to more fly-tipping.

The final decision is currently due to be made by the council's cabinet in early December.

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It follows a trial involving 10,900 properties which council officials said increased recycling and reduced waste.

A report to the council's scrutiny committee that said more waste had been recycled in areas where bins were only emptied once a month.

In February 2016, the council voted in favour of three-weekly collections.

And in December the council introduced charges for the disposing of non-household waste.

Labour councillor Ronnie Hughes said: "We haven't got things sorted with three-weekly collections, never mind four-weekly.

"There're been 10 cases of fly-tipping in my part of Llandudno alone in the last year and I'm worried that things will get worse if we collect everybody's black bins every four weeks."

But Liberal Democrat councillor Brian Cossey had argued to impose the new system.

"The only way we'll increase recycling is to make it harder for people to throw things away," he said.