Brigg households are used to the brown, green and red recycling bins and the blue and green kerbside boxes. But more of us are now being asked to recycle old clothing and textiles.
North
Lincolnshire Council is looking at ways to increase the amount of recycling.
From
this week the council and SITA (the kerbside box collections contractor) will be
jointly donating £35 to Lindsey Lodge Hospice for every extra tonne of clothing
and textiles collected from kerbside collections.
The
donations will go towards supporting hundreds of patients and their families
with life limiting conditions.
The
scheme will roll out across North Lincolnshire over a six-week period and all
residents will receive a scheme leaflet and a red bag through their
door.
Textiles
including clothes, shoes, handbags, belts, towels, sheets and blankets can be
placed in the red bag alongside your kerbside boxes. Unfortunately we are unable
to collect pillows or quilts.
If
you don’t have a red bag, you can leave them in a bag clearly marked for North
Lincolnshire Council textile collections. We are unable to collect textiles
presented in charity bags. On collection, you will be left with a new red bag.
The
bags are then sent to I & G Cohen, and the clothes are sorted and graded.
Good quality textiles will be used to help disadvantaged people in Eastern
Europe, Africa and Asia. The second hand clothing trade supports thousands of
livelihoods by providing jobs in repairing and restyling.
Any
low graded clothing and textiles that are damaged are sent to recycling centres
to be made into cloths for use in the engineering and garage industry.
Cabinet
member for Highways and Neighbourhoods, Coun Nigel Sherwood (Brigg and Wolds), said: "This
is a wonderful scheme as it encourages more people to recycle and any money we
can raise goes to a great cause in Lindsey Lodge Hospice. Old
shoes, bags and clothes can help fund treatment or support somebody’s
livelihood. I’d
encourage residents of North Lincolnshire to get involved with this
scheme.”
This
is a trial scheme for one year and will be reviewed in December
2014.
For
more information, contact the Customer Helpline on 01724
297000.
1 comment:
If anyone sees two plastic re-cycling boxes - one green, the other blue, they could be mine.
They've disappeared during the stormy winds - probably half-way to Barnetby by now!
I have a large black plastic bin in the back-garden - that's been flying about the place for ages - I did put some bricks in it to weigh it down, but now the bin and the bricks are flying about in formation!
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