RESIDENTS who don’t make efforts to recycle will be targeted in a new enforcement drive by Pendle Council.

From November 3, the Council’s Environmental Crime team will start visiting areas identified as ‘hot spots’ where extra bags of rubbish are regularly put out beside grey bins.

In Pendle the grey wheeled bin of rubbish is emptied every two weeks. Residents are asked to separate out their paper, card and textiles, and their plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, and food/drinks cans for recycling.

Currently around 36 per cent of Pendle’s waste is recycled. But some residents make no or very little effort to recycle and put out all their waste in their grey bin with bin bags alongside.

Environmental Crime Officers will visit areas on refuse collection day, looking for extra bagged waste at the side of grey bins.

They will inspect the waste to identify to which properties it belongs and deliver letters asking householders to split their waste into recycling and refuse before their next collection.