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Lanarkshire’s annual public fireworks display will be held at Strathclyde country park on Sunday, November 5.

North Lanarkshire Council’s business waste service has gone online to improve the service to customers.

Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionThese are Netherdale Road, Netherton; Foundry Road, Shotts; Stobcross Street, Coatbridge and Wardpark Industrial Estate, Cumbernauld. The new service is available online only and is for household waste only.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.North Lanarkshire Council is working to reduce the number of waste depots in the authority from 10 to two.Head of waste solutions Andrew McPherson presented a report to the council’s Environment and Transportation Committee with an update on this process, which will initially see the number of active depots reduced to five before the final closures are implemented.The changes are a result of a service review which determined the service would be improved by greater centralisation which would also save the council around £60,000 per year in addition to opening the option of selling the sites, with the first to close being Albert Street in Motherwell,

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.North Lanarkshire Council and Zero Waste Scotland are to trial new technology which will monitor the amount of recycling done by individual households.The two-year pilot programme will cover 5000 households in the council area, with tags attached to their bins, and three bin lorries will have weighing technology installed to monitor the weight of the weight of the residual, dual stream recycling and mixed food and garden waste bins.The first year will be chiefly spent outfitting all the bins involved, while the second year will involve various campaigns to promote awareness and recycling by residents.Head of waste solutions Andrew McPherson told the

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserHead of waste solutions Andrew McPherson told the virtual meeting: “We need to drive up our recycling rate and this is hopefully one way that will be done; North Lanarkshire has been chosen because ZWS realise the potential to recycle more is there.“The data won’t be used at household level but is to inform national and better targeted recycling campaigns in the future and see initiatives’ impact on the amount of waste being discarded and recycled in a council area.“Hopefully we should recycle more [which would] reduce the costs of our disposal.”The pilot was unanimously agreed; SNP councillor Willie Goldie said: “I really welcome this initiative and partnership with ZWS and