Successful purple bin scheme boosts recycling quality in Lincolnshire. Find out more ♻️
The rollout of purple-lidded wheelie bins is continuing after success in the first four areas, with South Kesteven likely to be next.
“The introduction of the purple-lidded bin in other areas of Lincolnshire has proved that collecting paper and cardboard separately is the most efficient and effective method of collecting good quality material for recycling, which we hope residents will support.” Paper reprocessor Palm Recycling has previously reported that the waste from Lincolnshire was the highest quality material presented to them by any local authority client in the country. The company found that the waste had an average contamination rate of just 1.5%.
Some argue that they should not have to do the council's job for them, while others believe the tags are an effective way to educate the public about correct recycling practices. According to a previous report to LCC, the average contamination rate of waste up to February dropped from 31% to just 1.5% since the introduction of the scheme.
The roll-out of separate paper and card collections is proposed to begin in the autumn with publicity and delivery of bins.The scheme was initially introduced in North Kesteven, Boston, and South Holland, where over 7,200 households began putting their clean, dry paper and card into a separate purple recycling bin.
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