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Bins, Waste and Recycling

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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£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…

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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.…

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It’s time to resolve to recycle more
29 December 2021

The great Christmas clear-up has begun as we begin to tidy up after the festivities. We create more rubbish at…

Black bin bags of flytipped rubbish on grass next to a footpath in Bottesford
Householder fined £400 after paying rogue trader £40 to dump...
10 December 2021

A man who paid a rogue trader £40 to take away his rubbish after they knocked on his door has…

Don't miss your bin day this Christmas
Don’t miss your bin day this Christmas
8 December 2021

It can be hard to keep track of the days over the festive period and with three bank holidays, bin…

Holly Mumby Croft, Rob Waltham, James Todd and two waste operatives behind new town centre litter bin
Government investment buys new town centre bins
1 December 2021

New bins have been installed in Scunthorpe town centre as part of continued Government investment to revitalise  the High Street.…

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Household Recycling Centre winter opening hours
26 October 2021

From 1 November, our Household Recycling Centres will revert to winter opening hours. Cottage Beck Road in Scunthorpe is open…

Dumped rubbish and debris in the back yard of a terraced house
Landlord fined over rubbish-filled garden
21 October 2021

A landlord has been fined after ignoring two warnings to get rubbish on their property cleaned up. A Community Protection…