Proposals to pilot huge bin bunkers to serve flats in Craigshill would cost more than £1m.
A report to West Lothian Council instead uses grant funding from the national agency Zero Waste Scotland to develop above ground bin shelters with new communal bins for flatted areas in the county.
Depute group leader Frank Anderson had called for a report into the bin bunker system which is now being introduced in many English cities. A similar type of refuse collection has also been introduced in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh.
