Purple bins to be introduced in new Lincolnshire districts

Purple bins are set to be introduced for the few remaining districts without them by 2025. The bins, which are used for separate paper and card waste, will be rolled out in Lincoln [1], South Holland [2] and South Kesteven [3] over the next two years. Four of the county's seven districts have implemented separate dry paper and cardboard bins.

Rachel Stamp, Lincolnshire County Council's [4] waste partnership and project manager, said she was optimistic about the roll-out, though couldn't guarantee anything. She said: "It is anticipated that potentially by the end of 2024, early 2025, [we will] hopefully be able to do that. There are all sorts of local issues that waste collection authorities have got to manage in terms of their own priorities and workload but in an ideal world we would have everybody rolled in by 2025, though I can't guarantee that."

Poll: What's the worst road for potholes in Lincolnshire?[5] During an environment and economy committee meeting on Tuesday, April 11, Cllr Ashley Baxter asked if it could take place any quicker, given the "enormous success" of the scheme. However, Rachel said that the previous roll-outs had partly been so successful because they had been delivered on a step-by-step basis.

She added: "We've allowed people the time that they have needed to adjust to the behaviour change that we've asked them to. Indeed, if we rolled in the remaining three authorities together, we would look at an increased cost in terms of the support we'd be able to give them so we need to be able to plan that and have buy-in from our partners." Support has included helping people to recycle better and also to find space for additional bins.

It is expected some bins could also become smaller as a result of the changes. Almost 14,000 tonnes of separate fibre have reportedly been collected in the four districts using purple bins. Prior to the scheme being introduced, the average contamination rate was 31 per cent but was now around 15 per cent.

Paper re-processor Palm Recycling found that the waste it received from the council had an average contamination rate of just 1.5 per cent.

References

^ Lincoln (www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk)
^ South Holland (www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk)
^ South Kesteven (www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk)
^ Lincolnshire County Council's (www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk)
^ What's the worst road for potholes in Lincolnshire? (xd.wayin.com)