The grant that we get from the Government continues to reduce even though the demand for our services is rising, for example from the growing population of elderly people in the county.The Council has already made savings of around £112 million this decade, and we’re expecting to need to save an additional £47 million by 2021 of which £17 million will need to be cut from the 2018/19 budget.We’re holding a public consultation on our proposals to:• Charge for certain wastes at our sites, i.e.rubble, soil, plasterboard, tyres and asbestos.• Close the part-time recycling sites at Wadhurst and Forest Row.• Change opening hours at certain recycling sites to better suit demand.

It costs nearly £10 million a year to run our 12 sites and to recycle and dispose of all the waste that residents bring.

The consultation will run for 12 weeks from midnight on 21 February until midnight on .

We’d like to hear from any residents of East Sussex.

Tough decisions will have to be made by the Council’s elected Members, and we’re likely to see some reductions in services.

We carried out a review of our Household Waste Recycling Site service and looked at a range of information, including accessibility, the number of visits by residents, satisfaction surveys, the amount of waste brought, how much goes to landfill, how much is recycled, how much the sites cost to run and our legal duties.