Recycling News
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Warwick District Council Recycling Collection Data on GreenBoxDay
16th November 2009
Shropshire's Recycling Rate rises to 47.57 percent.
13th October 2009
UK Waste Summit told there is still work to do
10th September 2009
29th July 2009
Private firm starts emptying Edinburgh bins
25th June 2009
Plastics recycling collections coming soon to Shropshire
16th June 2009
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| Waste proposals are 'tame beast' (24/05/2007) |
| Proposals to cut waste, which could hit people in the pocket for failing to recycle household rubbish, have been unveiled. However, the government's Waste Strategy may not go far enough for some environmental groups. The recent furore over fortnightly collections also makes this a diffi... Read Article |
| Newcastle City Council fortnightly collection plan binned (22/05/2007) |
| Plans for fortnightly bin collections in Newcastle have been dumped after residents gave them the thumbs down. The city council had been looking at ways of reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill. One option was alternate collections, with recycled waste collected one week and oth... Read Article |
| Kitchen waste collection trialled (14/05/2007) |
| The kerbside collection of kitchen waste for recycling is to be trialled at 10,000 homes in Surrey from May. Householders will be given a kitchen caddy and a 20-litre kerbside bin for their unwanted food, vegetable peelings and other organic kitchen scraps. The scheme is being funded by... Read Article |
| Putting out the bins in Europe (14/05/2007) |
| Some councils in the UK now collect rubbish fortnightly rather than every week - how does that compare to other European countries? Councils who have made the switch have seen recycling rates improve from 30% for compared with 23% still collecting every week.... Read Article |
| Britain needs to recycle more waste (14/05/2007) |
| Britain needs much more radical solutions to its biggest environmental problems, according to a report from the Prime Minister's own think tank, the Performance and Innovation Unit. The report - to be published soon - will warn that local councils have to triple the amount of household... Read Article |
| Recycling advisors visiting Shropshire homes (14/05/2007) |
| Thousands of homes across Shropshire are to be visited by recycling specialists from this week. They will knock on more than 48,000 doors in the north Shropshire, Bridgnorth and Oswestry areas to advise about what materials can be recycled. The latest figures show that almost of 35% of ... Read Article |
| Store drops bags in 'green' move (13/05/2007) |
| A Saffron Walden supermarket is to remove free plastic bags from one of its stores for a fortnight from Monday to encourage recycling. Customers at the Waitrose outlet in Saffron Walden, Essex, will instead be asked to re-use old carriers. It follows moves by Sainsbury's to make plastic... Read Article |
| Food waste a target for recycling (11/05/2007) |
| An Oxfordshire council aims to increase recycling by processing food waste which it said currently makes up 45% of the district's landfill. Food waste is to be targeted for collection and processing in a pilot scheme proposed by Cherwell District Council . A Cherwell District Counci... Read Article |
| £17m town rubbish plans unveiled - Wrexham (09/05/2007) |
| Plans have been unveiled for a £17m waste processing centre for Wrexham which will help reduce the amount of waste going to landfill sites. It is believed the centre will be built on Wrexham's industrial estate and run by Spanish-owned Waste Recycling Group.... Read Article |
| 10 uses for audio cassettes (09/05/2007) |
| Sales of audio cassettes are dwindling, but what use is there for the estimated 500 million tapes gathering dust? There were 83 million music cassettes sold in 1989, but by 2006 it was down to 100,000, excluding audio books and blank tapes. But an estimated 500 million in the UK are sti... Read Article |
| Blair doubts on fortnightly bins (01/05/2007) |
| Tony Blair has stepped into the row about councils switching to fortnightly rubbish collections - saying that he prefers weekly bin rounds. He said it was for councils to decide, but he told GMTV there must be "better ways" for them to boost recycling. About a third of councils now collect... Read Article |
| What about the rubbish? (25/04/2007) |
| Rubbish can be unhygienic, smelly and generally unpleasant, but many parts of the UK are having to live with it for longer. About 140 councils in England now run an alternate weekly collection (AWC) system, where ordinary household waste is taken once a fortnight, rather than once a week.... Read Article |
| Refuse changes 'boost recycling' (25/04/2007) |
| Councils that have switched from weekly to fortnightly rubbish collections achieve higher recycling rates, a study has suggested. It shows an average recycling rate of 30% for these councils, compared with 23% for those that had not switched. The LGA, which represents local councils in ... Read Article |
| Sainsbury's in disposable bag ban (19/04/2007) |
| Sainsbury's has said it will not hand out disposable carrier bags in its stores for one day later this month. The UK's third-largest supermarket instead plans to give its customers bags made from 100% recycled material - which usually cost 10p - for free. Sainsbury's gives out about 1.6... Read Article |
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Did You Know?
Glass that is thrown away and ends up in landfills will never decompose.