Households in North East Lincolnshire urged to recycle more waste
RESIDENTS in North East Lincolnshire are being urged to do their bit to help improve recycling rates in the borough.
The plea comes as changes to the council's waste and recycling collections come into force.
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Compulsory recycling: North East Lincolnshire Council's head of neighbourhood services, Tony Neul, left, and waste strategy manager Adam Lech are encouraging residents to do their bit to improve recycling rates in the borough. Submitted picture
The authority has now moved to a system of compulsory recycling in a bid to increase the amount of waste that is recycled in North East Lincolnshire from 35 to 50 per cent.
General waste bins which contain recyclable materials will no longer be collected in an attempt to encourage people to use the kerbside boxes for cans, glass and paper.
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Residents who refuse to recycle could be fined of up to £1,000 – however, council bosses insist fines will be issued only as a last resort.
Tony Neul, the council's head of neighbourhood services, said: "If you are already using the boxes and bins to recycle, we would like to say a big thank you, but as a whole, the area needs to, and can, do better.
"Our challenging but achievable goal, if everyone pulls together, is to recycle 50 per cent of the area's waste by 2020.
"What we want to do is work with the community and encourage them to do their bit.
"We do appreciate some people will have concerns about not having the boxes or not being able to get to recycling sites, and we would encourage those people to pick up the phone and speak to us.
"Only when we are happy that people have got access to the proper facilities would we consider taking action."
Mr Neul said that by recycling more, residents would be reducing the amount of landfill tax paid by the authority, increasing income from recycled materials, helping the environment and creating jobs in the waste collection service.
He added that the council was committed to keeping its weekly general waste bin collections.
Mr Neul said: "We spend about £10 million a year on the collection and disposal of waste, and £400,000 of that is landfill tax alone. If everyone does their bit we can change this."
Mr Neul added that the council had applied for government funding to introduce kerbside collections for cardboard and plastic, and to move from fortnightly to weekly recycling collections.
A decision is expected by the autumn, and if the bid is successful, changes could be implemented this financial year.
From June, residents will be asked to put cardboard waste in the green general waste bins rather then the brown garden waste bins, as previously reported.
Mr Neul said this move would help to improve the quality of garden waste collected and make it more attractive for processors.
Kerbside boxes for cans, paper and glass are available free of charge to residents who do not already have them.
For more information, contact the council's waste hotline on 01472 325841.
What do you think of the changes?
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Comments
by ImmArthur
Monday, October 22 2012, 7:11PM
“Given we're being threatened with hellfire and damnation by this crew if we don't recycle, where the hell was my collection last week? Where was the promised collection if I notified the council in sufficient time (which I did)?
Useless bloody hypocrites.
Arthur, Immingham”
by Coooooooo
Thursday, May 03 2012, 9:44PM
“And again, my brown bin has not been emptied today! Another 'missed collection' eform sent!”
by Coooooooo
Tuesday, May 01 2012, 5:48PM
“by RealworldNotThursday, April 26 2012, 5:08PM
"cooooo
Was your bin presented for collection at 7am in full view so the bin men can see it ???
you would be surprised at the amount that say it was, obviously a lie,i wonder how many people would complain if we said we have CCTV proof which all nelc refuse wagons have apart from 1, imagine the cost to collect 1 bin because that bin was not out for the bin men that person is wasting tax payers money.am sure if recycling picked up then am sure council tax wont go up hardly.
In response to Realworldnot
My refuse bins are put out either the night before or at 6.30am on the morning they are due to be emptied. I leave for work at 6.45am so they are ALWAYS ready for emptying by 7am. If your refuse wagons have CCTV then you will be able to look back at the 3 dates that I have not had my bins emptied and clearly see that they were presented for collection. You will then be able to reprimand whoever was responsible for leaving my wheelie bin full.”
by beardsley2
Tuesday, May 01 2012, 9:31AM
“Recycling has just got worse now. Since receiving the leaflet, all cardboard, that formerly went in the recycling brown bin, now goes in the green.
Already I can see land fill increasing dramatically with re-usable cardboard contributing to the the landfill cost significantly !”
by R_Turpin
Tuesday, May 01 2012, 9:08AM
“"...So, if for some reason you don't need yours, have a surplus or just hard up for cash, just give us a call."
Lovely jubbly, the collection in my lock-up should fetch a tidy sum......”
by I_Dunno_LoL
Tuesday, May 01 2012, 9:01AM
“HAVE YOU HAD YOUR WHEELIE BIN STOLEN, DAMAGED OR JUST MISPLACED BY ONE OF OUR COLLECTION TEAM?
Have you had your wheelie bin stolen, damaged or just misplaced by one of our collection team?
Then please get in touch with the designated issuing officer for your area or come to the customer access point. There are five issuing officers which make up part of our waste management team and can be contacted to arrange a replacement at knocked-down prices.
DOMESTIC WASTE RECEPTACLES OFFERED AT DISCOUNT RATES.
We can supply recycling receptacles (all colours), road side collection boxes (all colours), green and brown wheelie bins.
We also accept receptacles of all description colour and condition and will even offer payment for the best specimens. So, if for some reason you don't need yours, have a surplus or just hard up for cash, just give us a call.”
by fasteddie59
Saturday, April 28 2012, 9:14PM
“The "brown bin waste" goes to a local company at Riby who try to process it and sell it on. No luck there then with contaminated waste so under the "duty of care" system they dump it in a field at Irby and guess what?
They get away with it!”
by R_stiltskin
Saturday, April 28 2012, 7:40PM
“havntone!
NELC (plc) know full well that they can get away with lying to their customers. The Local Government Ombudsman have no interest in keeping them in check.
If it is unlawful to threatening customers with prosecution when in fact they can't, this is equally of no importance as they can rely on the police to turn a blind eye.”
by havntone
Saturday, April 28 2012, 7:11PM
“Having just received this booklet and read through it, my question is "Is there anything in law which says these two Morons can take you to court and fine you up to a £1000". Nobody has come up with an answer.”
by Rugrat1973
Saturday, April 28 2012, 2:06PM
“Well I think that this is bull doo, I have been using an elderly neighbours brown recycling bin as well as our own as he has a concrete garden and produces little waste.
Much to my dismay at my last waste collection the bin men applied a sticker stating that they suspected that the bin was an additional bin to those provided and if I wanted it emptying I would have to pay extra. How petty is that they refused the recycling but are appealing for more recycled waste in order to meet targets make your minds up! Some people do not recycle at all so any additional waste set by by those that do is surely a help. After all green waste is actually sold on making the council monies!”