Recycling progress

Residents are praised

council a higher disposal and treatment fee and send the entire load to landfill, which is a wasted effort for all households.

“For some recyclable materials, the council receives a payment from the processors depending on the quality of the load,” Councillor Michael McPake, convener of the infrastructure committee, explained.

“However, if the quality is poor, we may have to pay for the load to be disposed of. This could mean the difference between us receiving £64 per tonne to paying £125 per tonne.

“Ob v i o u s l y w e don’t want to pay any more than we have to for processing our recyclable materials, and any income we do receive goes towards the operation of our waste services and other local services.”

For the first eight months of the service, bins with the wrong materials have been tagged to advise households of the materials each bin accepts, but the bin was then uplifted within a few days. This was done to allow residents time to adjust to the new service.

From June 18, any tagged bins will not be emptied until the next uplift cycle, in three weeks’ time.

The tag asks the resident to phone Northline where staff will provide advice on the materials wrongly placed in the bin. If possible, the resident should remove the incorrect materials and present the bin at the next uplift cycle in three weeks’ time. If the whole bin is contaminated with the wrong materials, the resident is advised to take the rubbish to their nearest household waste recycling centre.

For more information on recycling, go to www. northlanarkshire.gov.uk/ recycling.