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| Thumbs-up for new bins from Stewart Swinburn - but, please, no nappies! |
SOILED nappies are being dumped in the new wheelie bins being issued this month to North East Lincolnshire residents.
The practice has dismayed Cllr Stewart Swinburn who is portfolio holder for waste disposal.
He said today: “I am disappointed that some households are choosing to put nappies and other unapproved waste in their blue bins.
“There is no excuse for this.
"It contaminates the whole load, and can mean the paper and card cannot be recycled.
"What is more, it undermines the effort most people are putting in to recycling.
"Our crews will not empty bins if people put the wrong items in them.”
NELC is working with a specialist distribution company to deliver new bins to about 73,000 households by mid-November.
Bins have this week been arriving at homes in parts of Scartho, Haverstoe, East Marsh, Heneage and Healing.
Households in parts of The Willows, Bradley, Nunsthorpe, Sidney Sussex, Humberston, East Marsh, West Marsh and Waltham will be receiving their bins later this month.
The initiative coincides with Recycle Week which runs from 21 to 27 September 21-27.
Meanwhile, a company called Grimsby Granulation Ltd has been tasked to collect the old recycling boxes though it is not known to what use these will be put.
The council has reported instances of unauthorised people taking the boxes for commercial or other purposes.
It says bins can also be returned to the community recycling centres in Grimsby or Immingham.
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