PUBLIC Services yesterday rejected a request to extend the kerbside recycling trials.

Deputy David De Lisle  will now take a motion to the States in February that, if successful, would mean a report on kerbside’s future and the Assembly making the final decision.

In the meantime he has written to Public Services minister Bernard Flouquet requesting the trials in St Peter’s and part of St Peter Port continue until the requete has been debated.

But Deputy Flouquet has written back and turned that down.

‘The guiding principle is that the department must use its judgement and recognise that it would probably be unwise to take any significant decisions after the receipt of the requete that would either create a long-term commitment which might be difficult for the States to change, or incur significant expenditure which might subsequently be found unnecessary,’ said Deputy Flouquet.

He added that the decision had already been made by the board to end the trials.