COUNCIL PLEA: STAY AWAY, PLEASE, FROM NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE'S TWO RECYCLING TIPS

RESTRICTIONS have today been imposed at North East Lincolnshire's  two Community Recycling Centres ( tips) in response to the coronavirus emergency.

The council today appealed: "Avoid visiting if you can - only visit if your trip is essential."

The following restrictions are now in place to keep the workforce safe and to comply with social distancing guidelines:

* Up to four cars on site at a time
* One visit per day
* Only household waste and recycling that is usually collected at the kerbside will be accepted – that’s general household rubbish, plastic bottles, tins, cans and metal household packaging, paper and card, glass bottles and jars.
* Other rubbish and recycling (mattresses, furniture, garden waste, white goods, building material etc) is no longer accepted until further notice.

There were almost twice as many visits to the CRCs in Grimsby and Immingham over the past weekend as there are on a typical busy weekend in the summer.

The CRCs were exceptionally busy at the weekend with 1,050 visitors to Grimsby on Saturday and 987 on Sunday.

 Immingham had 250 visits on Saturday and 317 visits on Sunday.

A typical busy weekend in the summer would see 1,100 visits to Grimsby and 250 visits to Immingham.

Cllr Stewart Swinburn, portfolio holder for environment and transport and North East Lincolnshire Council, said: " We’re being asked to do is to stay at home and limit our contact with other people.

“That means stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.

“The visitor numbers to the CRCs this weekend show people are not taking that advice on board.

“Queueshave already already running around the block at the Grimsby site today.

“This isn’t a Bank Holiday. People who ignore the advice are risking the safety of others and putting an extra burden on health workers.

“We’re working with our waste management contractor, Newlincs, to scale back operations at the tips to protect staff, visitors and the wider community.”

Meanwhile, NELC states that door-to-door household bin and recycling box collections are running as normal.