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Recycling

Recycling

Recycling Campaign and Objectives:

The aim of this project is to engage residents and promote, through various methods, the black box  and blue bin recycling scheme, in order to:

  • Increase awareness and understanding of the recycling collection scheme
  • Increase participation and therefore increase volumes of materials recycled
  • Increase levels of awareness and the importance of recycling
  • Explain the services offered and encourage active recycling
  • Reduce contamination in the recycling boxes/bins

We are doing this via Participatory Budgeting

Participatory budgeting directly involves local people in making decisions on the spending and priorities for a defined public budget. PB processes can be defined by geographical area (whether that’s neighbourhood or larger) or by theme. This means engaging residents and community groups representative of all parts of the community to discuss and vote on spending priorities, make spending proposals, and vote on them, as well giving local people a role in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process and results to inform subsequent PB decisions.

Why Should People be Involved in Participatory Budgeting?

Local councils all across the country are experimenting with new ways to talk to local people when they decide their budgets. Participatory budgeting is one of those ways.

Because spending money better improves the way the residents live and makes their area a better place to live.

Because local people have valuable local knowledge about when services are working well and what needs to change.

Because the Government believes before we can improve public spending, so we invest in the services we most value, more people need to be involved than ever before.

How does it Work?

The Four Steps of Participatory Budgeting

Step 1: Identifying issues and priorities in your community

  • Planning meetings (Residents)
  • Identify and prioritise issues
  • Choose their top capital priorities
  • Use a democratic process such as ballots or dots to prioritise issues
  • Present the top five priorities for the project

Step 2: Ranking the priorities and allocating funding

Residents and Partners:

  • Rank the priorities discussed
  • Participate in deciding how the budget for the project should be distributed against priorities
  • Decide on the projects that cannot be funded
  • Submit the priority projects to the newly formed PB Group
  • Select a resident delegates and alternatives to attend the progress/update meetings
  • Communicate with other residents within the area about the decisions that have been made

Step 3: Group Meetings

  • Make up of future meetings: Participatory Board Members (PBM)
  • Resident delegates and if required alternatives partner organisations (appropriate HCC officials, NDC etc..)
  • All future projects submitted to the PBM for assessment.
  • Future meetings could include presentations for organisations who wish to bid for money to run a project that will benefit the community.
  • This method will help the PB Board to make decisions on how to spend money in the area.

Stage 4: Monitoring and Progress:

  • Plans for future projects posted in relevant builds and details shared with local residents and appropriate partners.  These details will include funding allocation and completion date.
  • Successful projects must provide monthly updates to the PBM
  • Residents delegates will update the surrounding community

The project is currently at stage 4. Residents have been consulted over the last few months and a number have asked for new or more recycling container.

What's in your bin?

What's in your bin?