Improvements to Kerbside Recycling Service

North Lanarkshire Council have introduced major improvements to the blue bin kerbside recycling service.  You will be able to recycle more than 60% of your household waste. This new system means that lots of space will be freed up in your residual waste bin.

The changes were introduced in TWO phases.

Phase One - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth, Stepps, Moodiesburn and surrounding villages along with Coatbridge, Airdrie and surrounding villages.

Phase Two - Motherwell, Bellshill, Wishaw, Shotts and surrounding villages

Both Phase One and Two now implemented and operating

Along with the paper material, you can now also place the following materials in your blue bin;

Material	Action required
Clean cardboard (all types)	Please flatten  (if possible)
Clean food and drinks cans	Please rinse out
Aerosol cans	Need to be empty
Drinks cartons (Tetra Pak type material)	Please rinse out and flatten (if possible)
Clean plastic bottles	Please rinse out and flatten (if possible)
Clean plastic pots and tubs	Please rinse out and flatten (if possible)
Clean plastic food trays	Please rinse out
Textiles (clothes, towels etc)

Residents are reminded not to use plastic bags for material placed into blue bins.

To accommodate the increased levels of material for recycling the collection frequency of your green/grey bin for residual waste, requires to be changed and will fall into line with much of the rest of Scotland.

Your green/grey bin for residual waste and blue bin for recycling material will be collected on alternate weeks. In other words, your blue bin collection day will become the same day as your green/grey bin, but will be collected week about, see table below

Use this link to access your Collection Information.

If you have any questions in regards to these changes, please view our FAQs, contact us using the box at the top right of this page, or call Northline on 01698 403110.