WEST Craven residents who make no efforts to recycle will be among those targeted in a new enforcement drive by Pendle Council.

From Monday, 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 rubbish bin is emptied every two weeks and residents are asked to separate their paper, card, textiles, plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars and food/drinks cans for recycling.

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

Environmental crime officers will visit hot spot 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.