DENBIGHSHIRE County Council will hold a “special meeting” next week regarding its new waste collection system.

At a council cabinet meeting on June 25, councillors were told that the meeting will take place on July 8, with a view to a scrutiny inquiry starting regarding the new system.

On June 3, the council introduced changes to recycling and waste collections, including new containers and weekly collections for recyclable materials, and the scrapping of the blue wheelie bin.

Since then, one residents have been required to separate their “dry” recycling using a new three-tier “Trolibocs”.

There is also a free new weekly collection service for small electrical items, household batteries and textiles.

But the council has so far issued multiple apologies for residents across the county not having their bins collected on time, if at all, since June 3.

Council leader, Cllr Jason McLellan, has promised a “very, very deep dive” into the new system at the July 8 meeting, which he said had to take place after the UK general election on July 4.

Gary Williams, the council’s corporate director for governance and business, said there could be a “full day of scrutiny, in the public domain”, before one of the local authority’s scrutiny committees regarding the new system.

Last week, the council said it has put a number of “temporary measures” in place as it attempts to catch up with a backlog of missed collections.

It said has brought in additional refuse collection vehicles and staff, so more crews are out each day, while extra shifts are being put in place so that crews can stay out longer.

The council said it will also have crews out on Saturdays, focussing on key areas which have been missed so far, and staff from other council services have been re-deployed to help with tasks to support the frontline collection crews.

During the June 25 cabinet meeting, Cllr Huw Hilditch Roberts said: “I called it a shambles, but I’m at the point now where I’m calling it a disaster.

“We are two weeks further down the line and there are people who haven’t had a collection since May.”

Chief executive of the council, Graham Boase, called the roll-out of the new system “unacceptable”, meanwhile.