Recycling, rubbish and waste news
Let’s all waste less food in 2012
Published: Monday 9th January 2012
Waste less food – that’s the message from Pendle Council this new year. They're joining forces with the national Love Food Hate Waste campaign to encourage residents to throw away less usable food.
Happy Green New Year!
Published: Friday 6th January 2012
Local eco-friendly campaigner David Penney is helping Pendle Council spread the green message this New Year.
Thank you for recycling your paper and cardboard!
Published: Thursday 22nd December 2011
Thank you to everyone in Pendle who's been recycling their paper and cardboard together.
Love food, hate waste this Christmas
Published: Monday 19th December 2011
Pendle Council is supporting the national Love Food Hate Waste campaign this Christmas, and is encouraging residents to do the same.
Committed to improving our trade waste and recycling collections
Published: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Pendle Council's Executive Councillors will endorse the Council’s commitment to trade waste and recycling at their meeting on Thursday 17th November.
Aidan says Mix It Together!
Published: Thursday 27th October 2011
From next week Pendle residents no longer need to separate their paper and cardboard when putting it out for recycling.
Food waste recycling collections suspended
Published: Monday 10th October 2011
Collections of food waste from 7,000 homes across Pendle will end later this month.
Mix your paper and cardboard together for recycling
Published: Tuesday 4th October 2011
From 31st October Pendle residents no longer need to separate their paper and cardboard for recycling.
You 'can' now recycle cans and plastic bottles together across Pendle
Published: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Eight new recycling banks across Pendle are making it easier for residents to recycle their plastic bottles and food and drinks cans together.
Recycling past and present explored in Earby exhibition
Published: Friday 9th September 2011
If you’re interested in learning about recycling from the 19th century to the present day, pay a visit to the Earby and District Local History Society's exhibition between 17th and 24th September.
Pink Southend-On-Sea recycling sacks nothing to do with Pendle Council
Published: Tuesday 26th July 2011
Pendle Council wishes to make it clear that it has no involvement with the company that is currently delivering pink recycling sacks to homes across Pendle.
Bogus collector steals textiles from outside Pendle homes
Published: Tuesday 14th June 2011
Someone is stealing textiles put out for collection outside homes across Pendle, warns Pendle Council.
Nelson woman fined for dropping cigarette end in Nelson
Published: Tuesday 7th June 2011
A woman from Nelson has been ordered to pay £260 for dropping a cigarette end in Nelson town centre.
Thanks for your help with brown bin collections!
Published: Friday 6th May 2011
“Thanks to the many Pendle residents who are waiting until their brown bins are half full or more before putting them out for collection,” said Carole Taylor, Waste and Recycling Co-ordinator.
Your bins will be collected over the bank holidays!
Published: Tuesday 12th April 2011
Refuse and recycling collections in Pendle will continue as normal over the bank holidays during April and in early May.
Help us reduce the carbon footprint of our recycling wagons
Published: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Help us reduce the carbon footprint of our recycling wagons by only putting out your brown bin when it’s half full or more.
Nelson woman fined for leaving her bins out
Published: Wednesday 12th January 2011
A Pendle woman must pay £310 after she was fined for leaving her bins out after collection day.
Our food waste collections – one month in
Published: Monday 24th May 2010
Pendle residents involved in the new food waste collections have embraced a new way of getting rid of their leftover food.
Food waste recycling comes to Pendle
Published: Tuesday 9th March 2010
7,000 households across Pendle will spring into a new way of recycling when the Council launches food waste recycling collections this April.
Nelson man found guilty for six fly tipping offences
Published: Monday 16th November 2009
A 47 year old man from Nelson has been sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, for fly tipping six times.
The Smaller Brown Bins Are Coming!
Published: Monday 12th October 2009
If you’ve asked Pendle Council for a smaller brown bin, it will be delivered in the next few weeks.
Food waste collection will help Pendle meet tough recycling target
Published: Monday 5th October 2009
Food waste could be collected from some homes in Pendle from next April.
Brown bins hit town and country
Published: Friday 2nd October 2009
Brown bins have already been delivered to homes in most urban parts of Pendle.
Please don’t put plastic bags in your brown bin
Published: Wednesday 23rd September 2009
Pendle Council is reminding residents not to put plastic bags in their brown bins with their recycling.
Spa Experiences for Recycling Winners
Published: Monday 14th September 2009
25 Pendle people will soon be relaxing at Nelson’s Inside Spa, thanks to the Recycle More for Pendle campaign.
The Brown Bins are Being Delivered!
Published: Friday 28th August 2009
People living in Earby and Barnoldswick will be the first to take delivery of their brown bins on 1st September.
Recycling Roadshows - Your Last Chance to Come Along
Published: Thursday 20th August 2009
Have you been to one of our recycling roadshows yet?
Recycling roadshows - your chance to find out more
Published: Wednesday 29th July 2009
If you want to know more about the changes to Pendle’s recycling collections, why not come along to one of our five roadshows?
Wheelie bin fire prompts reminder from Council
Published: Tuesday 21st April 2009
Pendle Council is reminding people about the potential dangers of leaving their wheelie bins out on the backstreets, following a fire in one on Thursday afternoon.
Fines for residents who leave their bins out after collection day
Published: Wednesday 15th April 2009
Thirteen Pendle people have been fined £100 each for not bringing in their bin after it was emptied.
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