Households and workplaces must now sort their rubbish into four bins under new rules to streamline waste disposal and stop an “avalanche of rubbish” ending up in streets, rivers and seas.
New guidelines for bins have been set out to bring in a universal standard whereby all areas will have the exact same rules, which environment secretary Steve Reed said would end the “fiasco” of families and businesses in some areas having to sort refuse into seven different bins.
