No change to Christmas bin collection days – pages 3 and 14
New community lottery – be in it to win it! – page 3
Work starts on phase one of business park – page 9
NEWS NK
The newspaper for all North Kesteven residents
DECEMBER - MARCH 2022
Voluntary endeavour from across the District has been celebrated through the NK Community Champion Awards. Meet our 2021 Champions inside.
Recycling is improving in North Kesteven thanks to you More waste is being successfully recycled within North Kesteven than ever before, thanks to residents’ e!orts to put the right things in bins. By doing so, your’re playing your part in a wider, renewed focus on our earth and climate too. The roll-out of a new purple -lidded bin District-wide for clean and dry paper and cardboard only represented the biggest change to household collections in North Kesteven for two decades. It followed a successful trial with 7,200 households who moved over to purple bins in 2019. Already the results are staggering with 98.5% and 99% of purple and purple-lidded bins collected on the first two Districtwide collections respectively and perfect quality paper and cardboard inside. This is being processed in Kings Lynn for new products, including this edition of NewsNK.
Wrong items in green-lidded bins are impacting on how much is recycled in Lincolnshire, however residents’ efforts in Norh Kesteven are turning the tide Thanks to households putting only the right things in, there’s now a huge difference in the quality of green-lidded recycling, which means more can now be recycled from these collections than could be before. The positive impact of all this grows when combined with further efforts to reduce plastic use, re-use items and cut waste at home. See pages 12-13 for more.
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You put paper and cardboard into your purple or purple-lidded bin.
It’s collected by our crews.
It’s then bulked up to be taken to the papermill in Kings Lynn.
There, it’s processed into the raw material needed to make new paper and card products.
It’s now back in your hands in this NewsNK on recycled paper from this source!
Once read, put this NewsNK in the purple or purple-lidded bin, to be recycled again.
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