Beginning April 1, 2025, South Lanarkshire residents must obtain a £45 annual permit for garden waste collection, limited to three permits per household. Bins will be emptied bi-weekly, and permits are essential for collection. Residents can still recycle garden waste for free at local centers without a permit.
There’s some minor changes to bin collections this week. There will be no bin collections on Wednesday 1st January by South Lanarkshire Council owing to the public holiday. Bins will be emptied 1 day later than normal. (For Wednesday, Thursday and Friday uplifts) SLC remind residents to ensure that bins are not overfilled, lids are fully closed and no excess […]
Thought this would start to happen more given the council now charging for disposal uplifts. This is the mess at the top of Stoneymeadow Road. Loads of black bags of rubbish waste just discarded at the side of the road near residents property. Whoever lowlife did this, didn’t have a care in the world, (or […]
Some items will no longer be able to be disposed of at two household waste recycling centres from Monday 1 April. UK-wide legislation comes into force from that day, which means mattresses, couches and other upholstered seating will no longer be accepted at the smaller sites in Larkhall and Strathaven. This is because there is […]
What a mess! But this isn’t Blantyre. It’s nearby in East Kilbride. This week, residents there decided to form their own rubbish pile in the middle of their community, dumping bags of waste and even emptying their wheelie bins, in a mountain, right amongst their homes! Being at home may create some more waste than […]
South Lanarkshires current advice about Waste Collection Services. Waste and recycling Suspended services To make sure we are able to continue to provide our household waste collection service during this demanding period, we have the taken the difficult decision to suspend a number of our ‘on request’ services until further notice. The services affected are […]
Once again, fly tipping strikes near Auchentibber, High Blantyre. Anybody out for a Winter stroll along these scenic backroads would have had a sharp reminder of how much tipping is a problem in this area, being met with this mess. Discarded drums of waste oil thrown out of vehicles on and at the side of […]