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Text Message Reminders for Recycling Launched by GreenBoxDay (10/11/2008)
GreenBoxDay are delighted to announce the launch of our new text reminder service for recycling and refuse collections. Our registered users and councils have been telling us for some time that they wanted a text reminder service as well as the free email service and we have responded. ... Read Article
 
Year-round Edinburgh garden waste collection plans (28/10/2008)
Edinburgh homes receiving garden waste recycling service are set to benefit from year-round collections for the first time. Instead of stopping in November as in previous years, Edinburgh's garden waste collections will now continue on a monthly basis. Fortnightly collections will then... Read Article
 
Initiative to reduce waste impact will include more recycling bins (23/10/2008)
A ground-breaking scheme to reduce the environmental impact of waste in the home and workplace has been unveiled. The six places chosen to implement zero waste plans are: the London Borough of Brent; Shenley Church End in Milton Keynes; King's Lynn in Norfolk; The London Borough of Lew... Read Article
 
Work on Oswestry recycling facility starts (19/10/2008)
Work has started on a new recycling facility in Oswestry, Shropshire costing nearly £3million It is hoped that the facility for at Mile Oak Industrial Estate could be ready by May 2009. Shropshire Waste Partnership said would effectively replace the existing centre at Maesbury Ro... Read Article
 
Scottish household waste recycling rate reaches 31.7% (08/10/2008)
Scotland has made a "great leap forward" in its household waste recycling rate and municipal waste growth has stopped, environment secretary Richard Lochhead has announced. According to annual figures, which were officially published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Sco... Read Article
 
Recycling figures show increase (03/10/2008)
New figures for recycling in Wales show that councils are composting and recycling more household waste. On average in Wales, the amount of rubbish which is recycled has gone up from 27.7% to 32.2% - a rise of 4.5%. The annual figures to March 2008 show that Merthyr Tydfil at 24% and B... Read Article
 
EU law forces battery recycling (27/09/2008)
Britons will be expected to recycle far more batteries under a new European law which is coming into effect. The EU batteries directive requires that an eighth of all portable domestic batteries sold are recycled by 2012, rising to a fifth by 2016. At the moment only 3% of batteries in... Read Article
 
Council warning on waste targets (25/09/2008)
Councils in England have been warned they face multi-million pound fines if they miss EU targets for reducing the waste they send to landfill sites. EU rules on cutting landfill waste come into force in 2010. Despite increasing the amount of rubbish recycled four-fold in ten years, hal... Read Article
 
Public support for food waste collections says WRAP (19/09/2008)
WRAP today confirmed that food waste collections are proving popular among households and that a number of local authorities are turning trials into permanent collection schemes. In a report today, WRAP - the Waste and Resources Action Programme - said that the trials of offering separate ... Read Article
 
Leicestershire Council starts new recycling idea (14/09/2008)
People living in a Leicestershire borough are being encouraged to switch to new ways of recycling household waste in a special trial. The scheme called Saving Waste In The Charnwood Home (SWITCH) aims to reduce the amount of rubbish currently sent to landfill sites. It is hoped this wi... Read Article
 
Shropshire Recycling Roadshow 2008 (12/09/2008)
Would you like to find out more about waste, recycling and composting, and about your local waste services? The Shropshire Waste Partnership has organised a series of events across Shropshire where you will be able to find more about: ... Read Article
 
"It's a wrap": after 31 days without plastic. (01/09/2008)
After 31 days of trying to live without any new plastic, Christine Jeavans reflects on the highs and lows, and lessons she has learned. Her aim was to try to live for a month without buying anything new made from plastic or wrapped in plastic. She was able to keep and use the plastic s... Read Article
 
Record Numbers of Shrewsbury Residents Recycling! (13/08/2008)
SABC has conducted research, which has found that there has been a massive increase in the number of Shrewsbury households making use of the recycling and garden waste collection services. The evidence shows that since Alternate Weekly Collections (AWC) were implemented, tens of thous... Read Article
 
Eco show in Edinburgh recycling drive (05/08/2008)
Performers from an eco-conscious Fringe show have joined a recycling drive in Edinburgh. The cast of The Aluminium Show have swapped the stage for the streets to convince culture fans to use Edinburgh's on-street recycling bins. Edinburgh City Council is stepping up a gear to cope with the... Read Article
 
Mass sign-up to London recycling scheme (02/08/2008)
Thousands more households have signed up to a north London recycling scheme which becomes compulsory next week. From Monday, houses and houses converted into flats in Brent must put recyclable items into green boxes or face a fine of up to £1,000. About 6,400 householders joined ... Read Article
 
Scottish Bottle recyclers 'could be paid' (27/07/2008)
People could be paid to return empty bottles under radical new Scottish Government plans aimed at boosting recycling levels. The plans would see "deposit and return" schemes introduced, where shoppers would get money for bringing back bottles. The ideas form part of a consultation on possi... Read Article
 
Living in a world without waste. (11/07/2008)
The Mayor of Kamikatsu, a small community in the hills of eastern Japan, has urged politicians around the world to follow his lead and make their towns "Zero Waste". He told BBC News that all communities could learn from Kamikatsu, where residents have to compost all their food waste a... Read Article
 
Voucher pilot plan could boost recycling (09/07/2008)
The Conservatives are keen to encourage us all to recycle more of our waste by offering us a financial carrot. Set up in Philadelphia in 2004, RecycleBank has gone from working in just a few streets to having more than 150,000 customers in nine states. A million more are signed up and ... Read Article
 
£50 recycling incentives 'likely' (19/06/2008)
Households could be rewarded or fined according to the amount of rubbish they recycle, under pilot schemes due to run in five parts of England next year. Each council would be able to fix its own policy but environment minister Joan Ruddock said payments generally worked well in other part... Read Article
 
Government watchdog call to extend plastics recycling (05/06/2008)
Mixed plastic items such as salad bags and yoghurt pots can be recycled cost effectively, the government's waste watchdog has said. The Waste Recycling and Action Programme (Wrap) has published research it says proves for the first time the efficiency of this type of recycling. They sa... Read Article
 

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