SMALL CHANGE MIGHT HELP RECYCLING IN BRIGG

These pictures taken in Brigg on Sunday afternoon (September 16) might suggest that a  small change in working practices could help in the worthy drive to get more metal cans recycled.

There are two recycling bins located on the edge of the Old Courts Road car park.
One, we've found, is generally left open so people can lift the lid and empty a carrier bag, or refuse sack, of cans into it in one speedy process.
The other bin tends to be locked so well-meaning householders have to go through the much slower process of feeding  their cans - one or two at a time - through the round holes in the lid.
These pictures surely support a change to keeping BOTH bins unlocked. For the unlocked version seen here is full to bursting, while the other (with the top locked) still had plenty of room inside on Sunday afternoon.
The bags of cans left on the ground show that someone, or some people, were unwilling to go through the process of poking their items through the slots, having found that the bin with the top left open was full.
It does not encourage recycling if householders who have gone to the trouble of putting surplus cans into a bag and taken them to Old Courts Road  find they are unable to tip them en masse.
If it's OK to have one recycling bin unlocked, why not them both?
Another obvious and welcome change would be for North Lincolnshire Council to provide larger kerbside boxes for households.
Not everyone is willing, or even able, to stamp flat all their surplus cans to fit more into the box.
Recycling has to be made as simple as possible to encourage people to take part.
The current small kerbside boxes have been in service for a considerable time. More people are now  recycling, so something bigger would be helpful.
Maybe the council will consider that, going forward, as households make applications for replacements once wear and tear takes its toll on their boxes.
In case you were wondering, the carrier bags of cans placed beside the recycling bin pictured here were not left by Brigg Blog; we fed ours, two at a time, into the one with the locked top.
Elsewhere in the Old Courts Road car park  we photographed EMPTY litter bins - doors ajar - alongside which  many dustbin bags full of rubbish had been placed. The following afternoon, more items had been added to the pile - not all bagged.