Douglas Council has agreed to send two people to the Resource Waste Management Exhibition in Birmingham later this year.

The council’s executive committee considered a report by the director of environment and regeneration seeking funds to allow staff to attend.

Run in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Waste Management, the event provides a ’global platform for the latest practices and innovations that shaped the recycling, waste management, and sustainability sectors’.

It also is said to have provide ’an opportunity to learn what was new in the industry’.

The committee has agreed to pay £1,500 for the chairman of the environmental services committee (currently Councillor Ritchie McNicholl) and one officer to attend the exhibition.

In the agenda for this week’s council sitting, it said: ’In considering the request, it was being assumed that all travel restrictions instigated during the coronavirus pandemic would have been lifted by the time of travel, including the need to self isolate for 14 days on return to the island.’

The exhibition is due to be held in Birmingham on November 3 and 4.