Refuse Collection, latest news

Waste Management Services would like to thank residents for their patience whist we try to recover the work lost due to the extreme weather conditions that forced the service to be suspended. An update on our continuing efforts to ensure that all residents are back to normal by Christmas Eve is detailed below:

Recycling Centres

1. All North Lanarkshire Recycling Centres (less Reema Road in Bellshill which is closed for refurbishment) will be open and operational during normal opening times (8am – 8pm).

2. Grit for residential use will continue to be available for distribution to the public at Recycling Centres. Residents will be provided quantities in the region of up to 20kg in suitable containers to be provided by the public.


South Area – (Bellshill, Motherwell, Wishaw, Shotts and surrounding villages) - Blue “Recycling” Wheeled Bin Service

1. Routine blue bin service will commence on Monday the 20th of December. Please present your bin on your normal collection day to an accessible point by the kerbside. Only blue bins containing recycling material will be collected.

2. Side waste will be collected provided it is suitable recycling material.

3. No Grey “residual” waste bins or side waste containing “residual” waste will be collected. These have been serviced in the South Area and are due their next scheduled collection on your normal collection day the week commencing Monday the 27th of December.

Special Uplifts – All Areas

1. A reduced appointment service will resume from Monday the 20th of Dec with no appointments undertaken on Monday the 27thand Tuesday the 28th of December and Monday the 3rd and Tuesday the 4th of January.

2. Appointments missed due to the weather will continue to be cleared if not already collected.

Christmas and New Year Period – All Areas

1. Routine collections will take place over the Christmas and New Year holidays, please present the correct bin on your scheduled collection day.”

Christmas Gift Period Extended

If you are 60 or over and live in North Lanarkshire you will receive a special Christmas gift of £15.00
Because of the bad weather, you can now call into one of our cash collection offices until Wednesday 22 December. Offices will be open to collect your £15.00 gift between 9.30am and 4.00pm on:
Monday 13 December to Wednesday 22 December.
Our cash collection offices are located at:
10 Bank Street, Airdrie
26 Motherwell Road, Bellshill
126-130 Main Street, Coatbridge
2/4 Forth Walk, Cumbernauld
Parkfoot Street, Kilsyth
Blackwoods Crescent, Moodiesburn
69/71 Merry Street, Motherwell
162 Station Road, Shotts
135 Burnhead Street, Viewpark
236 Main Street, Wishaw
To collect your Christmas gift you must remember to bring along two forms of id, showing both your address and age.
Please check the list of items that will be accepted as identification when collecting your Christmas gift:
Bank statement
Bus pass
Birth certificate
Council tax bill
Driving licence
DWP letter re-pension
Heating allowance notice
Household bill
Passport
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Winter Update

Recycling Centres

1. All North Lanarkshire Recycling Centres (less Reema Road in Bellshill which is closed for refurbishment) will be open and operational during normal opening times (8am – 8pm).

2. Grit for residential use will continue to be available for distribution to the public at Recycling Centres. Residents will be provided quantities in the region of up to 20kg in suitable containers to be provided by the public.

South Area – (Bellshill, Motherwell, Wishaw, Shotts and surrounding villages) Grey / Green “Residual” Wheeled Bin Schedule

1. Routine grey / green bin service will commence on Monday the 13^th of December. Only grey / green “residual” waste bins will be collected.

2. Side waste will be collected provided it is suitably bagged.

3. No blue “recycling” bins will be collected. These are due for scheduled collection on your normal collection day the week commencing Monday the 20^th of December, at this time we will collect suitably bagged excess recycling material at this time.

Special Uplifts – All Areas

1. Appointments are available from Monday the 20^th of Dec.

2. Appointments missed due to the weather will be collected during the week Monday the 13^th to Friday the 17^th of December.

General – All Areas

1. Normal trade / multi occupancy services will resume from Monday the 13^th of December however there will be a limited service provided to trade properties and multi occupancy properties over the weekend Saturday the 11^th and Sunday the 12^th of December to clear the backlog”.

Winter Latest

Schools:

All schools were closed to pupils on Friday December 3. It is intended that all schools will be open on Monday December 6, dependent on weather.

Roads:

Tonight, we are treating all primary routes until they are clear and then we will move on to the secondary routes.

Tomorrow morning, the council's vehicles will again concentrate their efforts on keeping primary routes clear before treating secondary routes. However, we have drafted additional resources: private contractors, land services and farmers, who will be working on other parts of the road network from 08.00hrs until 17.00hrs.

Primary and secondary routes information by council ward can be found here.

Social Work:

Services are being maintained. Staff have access to 10 4x4 vehicles and some are travelling on foot into the worst-affected areas. If any resident requires to speak to someone urgently about a social work services they should contact Social Work Emergency Services on 0800 121 4114

Bin services:

Weather permitting, all frontline refuse collection operations will be attempted from Monday December 6.

Winter News

For the latest information on services affected by the weather check out the NLC Winter twitter feed on:

https://twitter.com/nlcwinter

Refuse Collection

Due to the adverse weather refuse collections have been temporarily suspended, the alternative arrangements for residents are as follows:

A) If your service has not been provided, please return your wheeled bin to it's usual storage point and re-present on the next scheduled collection date for that type of bin, i.e. recyclate bin, residual refuse bin.

B) On the next scheduled collection date for the same type of bin, additional crews will be operating to remove excess material at that time, provided it is suitably presented for collection, thus preventing street littering or foraging.

C) Only appropriate material presented for recycling collections, can be uplifted by those crews, as the loads would become contaminated otherwise.

D) Every effort shall be made to keep the Household Waste Recycling Centres operating throughout this period. These sites are available for any refuse or recycling material you may wish to dispose of in the meantime.

E) Supplies of refuse sacks are also available at three of Waste Management Services' Depots detailed below. These however shall be limited to 2 per household.

F) FOR THE SOUTH AREA ONLY, i.e. those routes on residual waste collection this week, residents can utilise their BROWN BIN for general residual waste storage, and can present this as a ONE OFF, in addition to their RESIDUAL BIN, for collection at the next residual cycle. It would be helpful however if the use of this option could be limited where possible, as we would hope to keep the additional bins down to a minimum in the recovery phase that week.

Finally, please find detailed below, the locations of all Recycling Centres and Waste Management Services' Depots for your reference.

Recycling Centres

1 Netherdale Recycling Centre Netherhall Road Netherton Industrial Estate, Wishaw ML2 0JG

2 Wardpark Recyling Centre Wardpark Court South Wardpark Ind Est, Cumbernauld G67 3HF

3 Stobcross Recycling Centre Stobcross Street, Coatbridge Coatbridge ML5 1BE

4 Auchinlea Recycling Centre Carlisle Road Cleland ML1 5LR

5 Dalmacoulter Recycling Centre Stirling Road Airdrie ML6 7SP


Waste Management Depots

Albert Street, Motherwell, ML1 1PR
Wardpark Court, Cumbernauld, G67 3HF
Souterhouse Road, Coatbridge ML5 4AA