North East Lincolnshire Council’s street cleansing team are mobilising for the busiest weekend of the year in Cleethorpes. Thousands of visitors are expected to descend on the resort for the first Armed Forces Day weekend since 2019. If you are visiting the resort and a bin is full, please find another or take your rubbish…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
North East Lincolnshire Council is reminding people that their household waste and recycling collections continue as normal as we head into the extended Jubilee bank holiday weekend. Waste and recycling collections, including garden waste, will take place as usual on Thursday and Friday (2 and 3 June). Please look out for your neighbours and remind…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Are Grimsby and Immingham Tips the best in the country? We think so. And now the team at the tips have won a national award to make it official. Grimsby and Immingham Tips won Best Civic Amenity Site of the Year at the awards for Excellence in Recycling and Waste Management. Both sites are run…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
North East Lincolnshire Council is reminding people that it is removing some of its remaining ‘bring to’ recycling banks this week. As announced last August, the following four sites are being removed as part of a review of the sites and their usage: Cromwell Road Fisherman’s Wharf Willows Shops Sutcliff Avenue Signs were put up…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recyclingNorth East Lincolnshire Council is reminding people that their household waste and recycling collections continue as normal as we head into the Easter bank holiday weekend. Waste and recycling collections, including garden waste, will take place as usual on Good Friday (15 April) and Easter Monday (18 April). Check your collection dates online at www.nelincs.gov.uk/bins….
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recyclingNorth East Lincolnshire Council is expanding its food waste recycling pilot to more homes this Spring. The Council started collecting food waste every week on one of its bin rounds last April. Households in the pilot area received a lockable outdoor bin and a small caddy for their kitchen. The pilot area includes 4,680 homes…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Enforcement officers at North East Lincolnshire Council issued legal warnings to 38 households for repeatedly messing up the streets where they live. They took the action as part of a six-month pilot project in Grimsby’s East Marsh. More than a third of all fly-tipping reports in 2021 came from the East Marsh. There are also…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Street cleaners from North East Lincolnshire Council were shocked to find a large python among some rubbish in a Grimsby street. They found the dead snake on Monday morning. It was hidden among some bin bags left by a hedge at the corner of Thorold Street and Park Street. Although the team aren’t reptile experts,…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
North East Lincolnshire Council is thanking households for recycling more than ever in 2021. In the first full year since households started using the new bins, recycling rates have risen by more than four per cent. In 2020, the recycling rate was 35.08 per cent. In 2021, it climbed to 39.14 per cent. In the…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Budding environmentalists at six North East Lincolnshire schools now have new compost bins to help recycle food waste and keep their classroom gardens looking great. North East Lincolnshire Council is offering compost bins to the area’s schools to help with environmental projects. Some schools have also had a set of wheelie bins to help with…
2 years ago | Bins, waste and recycling