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South Lanarkshire is rubbish at recycling, with some 'just throwing stuff out in the street'

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iOS - Android A meeting of the council's performance and review scrutiny forum on August 17 heard that recycling rates had fallen to 40.9 per cent in 2020-21, partly due to the effects of the coronavirus lockdown.Facilities officer Ian Guild said that "people had took to just throwing stuff out in the street" while council services were impacted during the early stages of lockdown.Recycling rates in South Lanarkshire peaked in 2016-17 at 53 per cent but the council has never been able to reach the 50 per cent target since and there could be as many as 5000 homes in the region that aren't offered a kerbside recycling service.Councillors Alex Allison (Clydesdale East) and Robert Brown (Rutherglen South) were concerned that the council did not.

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