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Recycling vans to collect old electrical items in East Yorkshire
People with unwanted kettles, phones and other small electrical items are being encouraged to donate them for recycling at collection from East Riding of Yorkshire Council will be visiting four towns and villages in the coming week, with more to follow later this vans will roll up in Goole and Snaith on Monday, and in Stamford Bridge and Wetwang on Skelton, director of Streetscene services at the council, said: "Previous collection events have proved extremely popular and our officers welcome any items, whatever condition they are in." The council said thousands of electrical items were found in household bins each year, but they could not be recycled in that way and also posed a fire people can take to the collection points should be no larger than a microwave oven and include toasters, irons, food mixers, hairdryers, electric toothbrushes, radios and power tools.A full list, along with the location and times of collection points, can be found on the council's website.A spokesperson for the council said it was hoped the events would also highlight how people can recycle items at household waste recycling plants, which are open daily. Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
BBC News
14-03-2025
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Bridlington man fined for dumping rocking horse on a bridleway
A man has been fined for fly-tipping waste that including a child's rocking horse on a rocking horse, furniture and other household items were left in Carnaby, near Bridlington, East Yorkshire, on 15 January last Johnson, 27, of Little Beck Road, Bridlington, pleaded guilty at Beverley Magistrates' Court on 5 March to failing in his duty of care to make sure his waste was disposed of was fined £40 and ordered to pay £353.92 in costs and a £16 victim surcharge. Carl Skelton, director of streetscene services at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said: "Householders have a duty of care to make sure their waste is disposed of responsibly and legally."There are plenty of easy ways provided for people to do that."Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
