This was the scene at the recycling centre on the edge of the Tesco store car park in Brigg at the weekend. A couple of shopping trolleys alongside the large recycling bins had been filled with bottles and cans. Also deposited on top of the piles were some plastic bags filled with cans. Nearby were signs saying No Fly-Tipping.
The weekend also saw the lids of both the large can bins on the Old Courts Road car park locked - stopping well-meaning recyclers from tipping in en masse full bags they had carefully packed up at home and taken along, on foot or by car.
These bins and often left unlocked but we've reported a number of occasions over the past months and years when this has not been the case. If these bins can be left unlocked some weeks, why not every week?
If responsible householders are to be encouraged to recycle rather than dump items in general waste wheelie bins, the process has to be made as easy as possible. In bad weather of the type experienced at the weekend, few folk will want to stand in the rain and feed large numbers of cans one by one, or even two by two through the circular slots on the sides of the bins.
Christmas is coming when more cans and glass jars and bottles will be available for recycling than at any other time of the year. It's to be hoped that all household recycling bins are emptied ahead of December 25 and that as many people as possible will use them after filling the small green box provided and emptied by the unitary authority.
