Five East Lancashire Household Waste Recycling Centres will this week be open as normal after closing over the weekend following unprecedented weekend demand during the recent good weather.
Since Sunday several of Lancashire County Council’s 16 waste hubs have had to temporarily stop accepting material while the sites were cleared including those in Lancaster, Burnley, Preston, Altham, Clitheroe, Longridge and Haslingden.
Now all except Clitheroe, Longridge and Chorley have reopened.
Many Burnley residents were left frustrated as they were turned away from the town’s household waste recycling centre on Sunday due to the skips being full.
Clitheroe Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) is closed each week on Wednesdays and Thursdays and will reopen as usual on Friday.
Longridge’s equivalent is due to reopen at noon on Wednesday after a short delay as it usually opens at 9am.
Chorley HWRC had to close yesterday afternoon but will reopen today.
The coming weekend is also expected to be busy and residents are urged to keep checking their Facebook page and website for the latest information.
Steve Scott, head of waste management at Lancashire County Council said: “We appreciate that the sunny weather meant a lot of people wanted to enjoy some spring cleaning but it has led to a very busy weekend.
“We dealt with unprecedented numbers of residents wishing to use our Household Waste Recycling Centres and unfortunately we needed to close all of the sites at times while our hard-working staff dealt with the demand.
“We have done everything we can to clear all the sites and we are hoping to reopen Longridge and Chorley Household Waste Recycling Centres on Wednesday and Clitheroe Household Waste Recycling Centre on Friday.
“We are expecting another busy weekend and urge residents keep checking our Facebook page and website as we will share the latest information here on closures.”
He is advising householders to plan their visits to HWRCs for quieter times to avoid queues and delay which are usually between 10am to 4pm during the week.
Lancashire County Council operates six sites in East Lancashire – Altham, Barnoldswick, Burnley, Clitheroe, Haslingden, and Longridge.
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