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Dear Scrutiny,
With regards to plastics, I have the following suggestions:
Kerbside collection for all regardless of parish - not everyone has a car to take their waste to the recycling facility and a lot of people are too busy to fit in a weekly trip to la collette. The easier it is to recycle the more people will do it.
Kerbside collection of all waste - items like old electricals, water cartridges, bottle tops can only be recycled at la collette, not everyone can get there so they end up in the bin.
Recycle more goods, including plastics - plastics can be recycled. It is frustrating for a lot of islanders there is no means to recycle these here. I visited a devon Viridor waste facility and they recycle most items. Could shipping plastics there be a solution? I think a lot of people would be willing to pay a few pounds more to recycle more.
https://services.viridor.co.uk/customers/what-happens-to-my-waste/
Support for plastics free shops (like mini mall or farm shops)- i use a local farm shop as they use paper bags and don't wrap every piece of fruit and veg in plastic, but the opening hours and location are not convenient for everyone.
A lot of people want to recycle and avoud using plastics but are frustrated by how difficult this is to achieve in Jersey. The above ideas are not new, they're already followed in other countries.
Regards