Opposition councillors will attempt to block controversial plans that would see general waste pick-ups in Dundee switched from weekly to fortnightly.
Labour councillor Richard McCready said the council agreed to have a consultation on the plans in June 2013 but have failed to act on the promise.
He will be leading the calls for a deferral on the decision until residents’ views have been sounded out.
A report, which went before the city’s environment committee on June 10 last year, states: “The Local Community Planning Partnership network will be utilised to enable a consultation process to be undertaken with communities, residents and elected members on the implications of the new regulations for the collection of recyclates and residual waste in the city.”
SNP-administration environment convener Craig Melville has insisted that local people will have a proper say in the plans.
Mr McCready said: “I want Dundee’s recycling record to improve. I want to see changes that improve it.
“I am clear that for this to happen there needs to be support from the people of Dundee. One way of ensuring this would be to have an extensive and full consultation before the policy is agreed this is what was agreed to in June 2013.
“I want to know why decisions of the council are being ignored by officers and by the SNP administration. We need to be able to trust that decisions made democratically are actually implemented.”
The proposed new scheme for the city’s waste collections will go before councillors this Monday and it will see residual waste pick-ups go fortnightly.
However, in a bid to improve recycling, new weekly food waste collectionswill be phased in. There will also be new ways of collecting paper, glass and plastics.
But residents fear it will leave piles of rubbish across the city. Mr McCready added: “It is clear to me that people are uncertain about the proposals…I think that if they had been involved in the decision-making process this would be different.
“People understand the need to improve recycling, why doesn’t the council trust them to have a say in what is proposed?”
Mr Melville hit back at the claims, saying: “It is clear from the report going before the environment committee on Mondaythat we will still be putting these things to residents and will see what works best for them. It might be the case that there will be no change in certain areas….it will be an extremely thorough discussion with residents.”