Gravesham council was one of 54 across the country that successfully applied for help from a Chewing Gum Task Force grant, administered by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy. With the fresh ...

A bin man had to be taken to hospital after being injured by a large needle left in a rubbish bag. Gravesham council issued a ...

Gravesham Borough Council said it was clamping down on fly-tipping at the Morrisons in Northfleet, Gravesend. Having taken action against 35 fly-tippers in August last year, the council has since ...

Gravesham borough council has announced that it is converting its entire vehicle fleet – including its household waste collection HGVs – to run on Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). HVO is a “biofuel” ...

A population increase throughout the borough ... to the council and complaints.” Under new plans, technology would also be bought in order to calculate a better route for the bin wagons to ...

Staffing problems and a lack of wagons, combined with an increasing population, have seen bins across Tameside left unemptied, a report has revealed. A population increase throughout the borough means ...

Blackburn with Darwen Council said there are 400 bins in the borough and these were being filled as ‘quickly as possible’ on a rota basis. The council also reminded residents that ‘grit was ...

Bristol could become the first city in England to only collect household black bin rubbish every four weeks. The Green Party-led council says too many people are putting waste that could be recycled ...

North Yorkshire Council has revealed the plans for bin collections in the coming week after it was forced to suspend them amid wintery weather. The region was hit with heavy snowfall last week ...

Despite the backlash, Bristol is not the first UK council to restrict bin collections. Many authorities now only collect general waste every three weeks, while Conwy County Borough Council became ...

A council leader has spoken out against potential plans to merge local authorities in Staffordshire to create new, larger, unitary authorities. Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council's Simon Tagg ...