Spook-tacular display at Grimsby Tip
Dare you enter the Tip of Terror? Staff at the award-winning Grimsby Community Recycling Centre (CRC) have a few tricks and treats up their sleeve as they’ve given the site…
1 year ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Bins, waste and recycling
Recycle Week 2024: North East Lincolnshire Council joins the national campaign to save recycling from the bin
North East Lincolnshire Council is delighted to join this year’s Recycle Week (14 – 20 October) to celebrate the efforts of people in North East Lincolnshire. Now in its twenty-first…
1 year ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Staff find electric guillotine prop at Grimsby tip
When you visit the tip, you probably take an old sofa, some memories from yesteryear that you no longer need or all the empty cardboard boxes from Christmas. But what…
1 year ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Are you putting the right thing in the right bin?
In a recent spot check of blue recycling bins, of which 17366 are collected every week, teams found that nearly half were contaminated with a range of products including takeaway…
1 year ago | Bins, waste and recycling
England tip-ped to win the Euros with tyre-rific decorations
With England set for a clash with Spain in the final of the European Championship on Sunday, 14 July, the team at Grimsby Community Recycling Centre have been busy decorating…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
How we clean up during the biggest event of the year – Armed Forces Day 2024
North East Lincolnshire Council’s street cleansing team are currently working through their busiest weekend of the year. The small team have been clearing up after thousands of visitors that have…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
“I’ve been here 43 years and will never do anything else for the rest of my working life”
A street cleansing operative is celebrating over 40 decades in the job and has no plans to stop working anytime soon. Martin Beck, known as Elvis amongst his work colleagues,…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
775 litterers prosecuted over six years after not paying Fixed Penalty Notices
Close to 800 people have been taken to court for littering following their non-payment of a fixed penalty notice (FPN) over the last six years. From March 2018 to April…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Grimsby tip goes hopping mad with easter decorations
Are you as egg-cited for Easter as those at Grimsby Community Recycling Centre? Their award winning tip has been egg-cellently decorated with bunnies, eggs and chicks ahead of the Spring…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Over 7 tonnes of rubbish cleared in latest Clear It event including a fridge and a unicorn head
7.5 tonnes of waste, including fridges, a unicorn head and an amusement ride have been removed from an alleyway in Grimsby. Castle Street, on the East Marsh, is the latest…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling