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Bins, Waste and Recycling

Recycle for North Lincolnshire.
Household recycling centres summer opening hours
24 February 2023

Our Household Recycling Centres will begin operating from their summer opening hours as of Wednesday 1 March. Cottage Beck Road…

Colourful green graphic encouraging people to swap their brown bin for a composter
Be the 1,000th composting hero – switch your brown bin for...
23 February 2023

Nearly 1,000 people have already made the switch from brown bins to home composters as part of the council’s Grow…

Litter campaign - Crowle Market Place.
“We will keep going until we eradicate litter”: War on...
16 November 2022

A raft of recycling bins have been installed in towns and villages across North Lincolnshire as part of the latest…

Black bin batgs and carrier bags of rubbish dumped on a grass verge
Two people fined for dumped rubbish
25 October 2022

Two people have been slapped with fines after dumping rubbish, or paying someone else to dump it for them. A…

Putting a paper cup into a bin
No rubbish excuses: Extra bins installed in Scunthorpe as war on...
18 August 2022

A suite of new waste bins is being installed in the Crosby area of Scunthorpe – with street cleaning rounds…

Holly Mumby Croft, Rob Waltham, James Todd and two waste operatives behind new town centre litter bin
Council launches new offensive in war against litter
25 July 2022

A new offensive is being launched across North Lincolnshire as the council’s crack-down on litter louts intensifies. Hundreds of bins…

Picture of a bin lorry on a housing estate
Extreme Heat: Tuesday’s brown bin collections re-scheduled
15 July 2022

Changes are being made to bin collections with the temperature predicted to soar to almost 40 degrees. There will be…

Girl and boy playing on a tyre swing in the garden
Win a family pass to Normanby Hall Country Park by re-using...
29 June 2022

To kickstart the Young Mayor Environmental Award Project the Young Mayor, Alexia Dibdin, has launched a competition for residents to…

Country lane in Belton filled with flytipped rubbish
Appeal for witnesses after massive fly-tip on rural lane
10 June 2022

A massive fly-tip containing debris believed to be from a cannabis farm has been dumped on a farm track near…

Photo of refuse wagon
Recycling collections disruption as Covid-19 rate rises
31 March 2022

Residents across the area are experiencing some disruption to recycling collections as Covid-19 infections increase significantly and staff isolate to…

Great British Spring Clean promotional poster
Litter Heroes assemble – join the 2022 Great British Spring...
22 March 2022

North Lincolnshire is once again taking part in the Great British Spring Clean between 25 March and 10 April and…

recycle for North Lincolnshire green text and logo
Household Recycling Centres summer opening hours
2 March 2022

Our Household Recycling Centres have begun operating from their summer opening hours. Cottage Beck Road in Scunthorpe is now open…

Photo of flytipped household rubbish with the words 'No fly tipping - warning CCTV in operation'
£400 fine for flytipper caught on CCTV
28 February 2022

A Scunthorpe resident who was spotted dumping cardboard, household waste and rubble into a garden was fined after being spotted…

A Christmas tree being put through a large orange chipper with lots of other trees behind it waiting to be shredded
Tree-mendous result from recycling scheme
23 February 2022

Old Christmas trees have helped Lindsey Lodge Hospice raise vital funds, with help from North Lincolnshire Council. More than 350…

Photo of litter with the words 'Show a Litter Respect' warning of £150 fines
More than 1,800 people hit with litter fines
13 January 2022

Selfish litter louts have been fined 1,846 times in the past year as part of North Lincolnshire Council’s crackdown on environmental crime.…