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# Fresh call for cabinet member to resign after behind closed doors meeting on new recycling bags
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/fresh-call-for-cabinet-member-to-resign-after-behind-closed-doors-meeting-on-new-recycling-bags/
- Published: 2022-05-06T06:39:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-06T06:39:11.000Z
- Description: Calls for a cabinet member to step down over problems with a new recycling system across Lichfield and Burntwood have continued after a behind closed doors meeting on the issue.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:11, News

Calls for a cabinet member to step down over problems with a new recycling system across Lichfield and Burntwood have continued after a behind closed doors meeting on the issue.

![Cllr Ashley Yeates](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/18192177690_d29811fe56_o.jpg)

Cllr Ashley Yeates

Lichfield District Council met for a private briefing after the mix-up which has seen some new recycling bags distributed which are [a third smaller than they should have been](https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/council-admits-new-recycling-bags-in-lichfield-and-burntwood-are-a-third-smaller-than-they-should-be/).

Cllr Ashley Yeates, cabinet member for recycling, has [previously been urged to step down over the “monumental mistake”](https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/call-for-cabinet-member-to-resign-after-monumental-mistake-on-recycling-bags/).

Any hope that the pressure on him would ease after the briefing session – which the public and media were excluded from – has been dashed after fresh calls were made for him to resign or be removed from his post.

Cllr Steve Norman, leader of the Labour opposition group, said:

![Cllr Steve Norman](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/stevenorman.jpg)

Cllr Steve Norman

> “For the second time the cabinet member who sat in the meeting, but who did not volunteer to answer questions – instead leaving it to officers – and who referred to ‘some slight hiccups’ with the roll-out of the new system left members insulted again by his lack of response to questions.   
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> “It was at the first meeting of the new overview and scrutiny committee in July last year when the chair asked him about the progress of the dual stream recycling system. He simply replied: ‘It starts in April’.   
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> “Clearly he should reconsider his position or at the least the leader of the council should reconsider it for him following last night’s performance.”   
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> Cllr Steve Norman, Lichfield District Council

Cllr Norman said the meeting was told new FAQs would be produced based on some of the questions that have been received by councillors.

In an email to councillors previously, Cllr Yeates told them that checks were being made on the bags [but he said they were “fit for purpose”](https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/councillors-told-new-lichfield-and-burntwood-recycling-bags-are-fit-for-purpose/).