A house builder was asked to consider creating private collection points for recycling bins in its front gardens amid concern kerbside collections were obstructing footpaths.
East Lothian council leader Norman Hampshire made the request at a virtual meeting of the planning committee earlier this week.
But his call for the developer to consider making an off-street space for people to put out their bins was quickly dismissed by council officers who said the point of a kerbside collection was the rubbish being left at the kerb.
