North East Lincolnshire Council is lifting some of the restrictions in place at its tips - Community Recycling Centres - in Grimsby and Immingham.
Today the authority put out the statement below.
People should only visit the tips if it is absolutely necessary – store your waste and recycling at home if you can do it safely.
Under the terms of the lockdown, householders can travel to a centre if the waste in their home presents a risk of injury or a risk to public health or the local environment.
The following restrictions remain in place at Immingham and Grimsby:
* No one in self-isolation or with coronavirus symptoms should visit the tips under any circumstances
* Only visit if it is absolutely necessary – store your waste and recycling at home if you can do it safely
* Stay two metres away from our staff and other visitors to the site
* Up to four cars on site at a time
* All waste and recycling must be brought to the site in a vehicle
* Only one visit per day
* Assistance will not be given by the site attendants – please only bring waste that you are able to handle safely yourself
* Maximum of two people in a vehicle
* On your return from the site, please remember not to touch your face and to wash your hands for 20 seconds on arrival at your destination.
From today, most waste types and recyclable materials will be accepted, however the following restrictions will apply:
* Maximum of three types of waste and/or recyclable materials will be accepted at any one time
* Wood/MDF will only be accepted in a car
* Mattresses and bulky items such as sofas and bathroom suites will not be accepted
* Soil and rubble (maximum of three bags per household per day).
These restrictions will help reduce the time people are on site and stops people moving around the site to dispose of waste and recycling in different containers.
Both tips are open from 8am to 6pm seven days per week.
However, patience will be required because there are limits on the numbers of people that can be on site at any one time.
Cllr Stewart Swinburn, portfolio holder for environment and transport at the Council, said:
“We’re working with our waste contractor Newlincs Development Ltd to keep our recycling centres open where social distancing rules can be maintained.
“We kept Grimsby CRC open and we re-opened Immingham last month for households who cannot store waste safely at home.
“The Government updated its advice last week and we are now in a position to lift some of the restrictions on items that can be taken to the recycling centres.
“But I must stress, you can only visit if it is necessary and you can’t store your waste and recycling safely at home.”
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