PENDLE is to get mobile ‘pop-up’ recycling vehicles in a bid to improve waste collection in the borough.

The move by Lancashire County Council follows the closure of the centre in Regent Street, Colne, in 2012.

Borough leader Mohammed Iqbal welcomed the new ‘pop up’ tips but said the search for a permanent new recycling centre in Colne would continue.

The county offer of a weekly mobile service in Pendle with a vehicle providing a recycling collection point at various points in the borough was accepted by the council’s ruling Labour/Liberal Democrat executive last week.

It comes after county hall officials failed to find a new site for to replace the Regent Street centre which was closed to household waste in March 2012.

The county submitted the plan to the Pendle executive on Thursday for a mobile or ‘pop-up’ site to collect a wide range of recyclable material but not take any household residual refuse or garden waste.

The county council will pay for the cost of the new service and the area committees in Colne, Nelson, Barnoldswick, Earby and Brierfield will be consulted on which locations the vehicles should use to be most effective.

As well as cardboard, paper, cans and glass, it is expected the new system will accept items such as small electrical appliances and some larger ones such as vacuum cleaners and TVs, textiles, scrap metal and plastics, bikes, fish tanks and spectacles.

The mobile recycling unit will visit the same locations at a given time each week.

Last year Colne LibDem County Cllr Dorothy Lord collected a 4,000 signature petition calling for the reinstatement of a recycling centre in Colne and was a member of the authority’s committee that looked into the issue.

LibDem councillor David Clegg, executive member for environmental services, said he was satisfied that a proper search for land had taken place and there is none at present.

He said: “We need to support the county’s offer and negotiate further.”