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 stark warning about correctly disposing of medical sharps after the ...

Ipswich Borough Council will introduce a charge of £50 a year to have household brown bins emptied fortnightly. Phil Smart, portfolio holder for environment and transport at the Labour-run ...

Residents in Blackburn have spoken out after they were forced to drag their bins to the end of an alleyway only for them not to be collected. Blackburn with Darwen Council said householders on ...

Opportunists in a rural Welsh town are cashing in on the council’s decision to reduce bin collections to once a month. Residents in Conwy, North Wales, are charging up to £40 a month offering ...

A huge plan to make bin collections in Tameside more reliable includes four new wagons and staff. Around 11 million binfuls of waste and recycling are emptied each year in the borough ... £1.8m has ...

Villagers in Silkstone still haven’t had their brown recycling bins or garden waste collected by Barnsley Council, with the last collection date December 23. Locals were told that grey bin ...

Birmingham City Council has admitted it is incinerating some of the recycling rubbish collected from residents during the ongoing bin strike. There are fears of city-wide disruption after the ...

Thousands of pounds will be spent on replacing "filthy" bins in a city centre over the next three months. Norwich City Council will commit £74,000 - funded by the government's UK Shared ...

Around 42 council ... to the way bins are collected in England were announced in 2023 – after the government announced new rules on recycling. Every county and borough in England will ...