A 13-year-old "binfluencer" has been made an official recycling ambassador by a council. Tommy was given the title by Bury Council and given a VIP tour of the council's bin depot. It comes after he ...

All dry recycling collections have been temporarily suspended by a council. Central Bedfordshire Council said a firm it worked with, away from the collection of bins, had suspended its service at ...

Residents are being asked not to put out their orange-lidded and green-lidded bins for collection from Monday All dry recycling collections have been temporarily suspended by a council. Central ...

Households in Doncaster will be able to leave vapes, e-cigarettes and small batteries out with their recycling from this week to combat a "surge" in battery-related fires. Residents have been told to ...

A Scottish council is considering capping the number of visits to its household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) after one user booked nearly 250 visits in a year. The local authority in Dumfries and ...

There are no immediate plans to shut a recycling centre, which two years ago was earmarked for closure in a cost-saving measure. Somerset Council published plans in January 2024 to shut five of the ...

Vapes and batteries will be collected by bin crews in Doncaster from this week Households in Doncaster will be able to leave vapes, e-cigarettes and small batteries out with their recycling from this ...

A council has said collections of dry recycling were suspended after a contractor tried to double the price of processing the rubbish. People living in the Central Bedfordshire Council area were told ...

A BBC presenter has urged people to check their festive wrapping paper before recycling it, as some types contain plastic and ...

Recycling company Unimetals, which has dozens of sites across the UK, has filed for liquidation. The company's head office is in Stratford-upon-Avon, and has sites scattered around the country, ...

Plans to build a recycling plant in Chertsey have been approved, despite concerns about increased traffic around the site. Earlier this year Surrey County Council (SCC) outlined proposals for a ...