Stirling Council’s waste service is working the most costly bin assortment in Scotland.
Tory opposition councillors have cited figures displaying that the fee per family to gather family waste is sort of double the Scottish common.
The prices of the service in all 32 Scottish councils is collected by the Enchancment Service and launched yearly as a part of the Native Authorities Benchmarking Framework Report that compares efficiency and prices for a variety of companies in any respect Scottish native authorities.
The Tories say the most recent figures present it value £137.56 per property to gather family waste in 2020/21 within the Stirling Council space, whereas the common value throughout all 32 councils is sort of half that at £72.35.
A Stirling Conservative group spokesperson stated: “Highland Council, over ten occasions the scale of Stirling council space, overlaying one third of Scotland’s land space, handle to run two-weekly collections and do it for £83.66 per property.
“Stirling Council’s prices have risen from the £130.62 final yr and stay by far the very best in Scotland.”
Stirling’s Conservative councillors have been campaigning to have the transfer from fortnightly to four-weekly gray and blue bin collections stopped ever for the reason that council’s SNP/Labour administration accredited them final yr.
Regardless of an preliminary 6000 signature petition and an extra petition of round 4000 names, particular votes being referred to as and an unsuccessful movement of no confidence lodged within the administration, the adjustments had been launched final September.
Of the 32 Scottish councils, 20 function a two weekly service, two a weekly one and 9 accumulate each three weeks.
The Tories declare the one different council in Scotland to function four-weekly collections, Falkirk, has seen their recycling charges fall and fly tipping studies improve by almost 500.
And so they say that, regardless of cuts to companies and the imposition of a £35 cost to have backyard waste collected, the prices in Stirling are set to rise by £1 million within the subsequent 5 years in response to the council’s personal official figures.
They add that figures produced as a part of this yr’s price range report, and agreed by the SNP/Labour Administration on the price range assembly on March 3 this yr, present prices rising from £8.806 million this yr to 9.802 million in 2026/27.
Tory group chief Neil Benny stated: “Not solely has the SNP managed to create the worst bin assortment service within the nation, they've made it the most costly as properly.
“Their appalling mismanagement of this significant service is a scandal. There are individuals struggling to deal with month-to-month collections, missed collections in all places, Others are struggling to pay the SNP’s £35 tax to get garden mowings collected and many further journeys to the tip are wanted. What service they do get is costing a fortune to run.”
Nonetheless, Stirling SNP atmosphere spokesperson Jim Thomson stated the Tory feedback “reeked of desperation”.
He added: “They dont even perceive the very fundamentals of finance. The so-called £1million rise in value over 5 years is due completely to inflation, based mostly on an estimated three per cent each year. As we all know inflation is at present six per cent and rising.
“Has the council the most costly bin assortment service in Scotland? Sure - and regrettably it has been for twenty years.
“The Tories appear to overlook they had been in energy between 2012 to 2017. They claimed they'd minimize prices by £800,000 - as an alternative it was costing £650,000 extra by the tip of 2018.
“The SNP led administration needed to step in to type out the mess left by the earlier Tory administration.
“Is the brand new assortment system working - properly sure. Due to our residents, we're on track to avoid wasting nearly £1 million yearly on landfill tax alone.
“Residents are properly conscious of the necessity to recycle. Each tonne diverted from landfill helps save our planet. Most households are taking higher care of how they eliminate their waste.
“I’ve requested earlier than so I'll ask once more of the Tory atmosphere spokesperson - what's going to the Tories do that's totally different and nonetheless meets our zero waste targets? They by no means reply.”