MERSEYSIDE residents can still have their say on the way the area manages its municipal waste for the next 30 years.

A draft document which sets out a range of targets and options designed to help Merseyside councils and Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority meet tough environmental and resource management challenges on waste prevention, recycling, landfill and carbon impact is available for comment until August 26.

The draft document, Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Merseyside –Resources Merseyside, was created from comments made by all Merseyside district councils and a representative sample of more than 3,000 residents. It sets out targets and ideas designed to help Merseyside improve municipal waste management.

The document has been agreed on the basis that district councils will decide the best collection system for their area and identified a menu of options which have been developed. These options include joint working, frequency of waste collections, green waste charging, food waste collections and treatment and a policy of no side waste.

Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority Chief Executive Carl Beer said: “Decisions will be entirely for individual district councils to make on what they feel will best achieve their needs based on their own performance, resources and local circumstances. What we must all understand is that we have got to do more to change our behaviour where waste is concerned.”