The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

Bristol tips to close two days a week and street-cleaning rounds halved as waste firm faces cash crisis

Bristol City Council has told its recycling company to "live within its means"

Bristol Post · Feb 27, 2023

East Renfrewshire garden waste collection charge set to rise to £50 as 'compromise'

Conservative councillors opposed plans to lift the fee from £40 to £60 and now the council's cabinet has suggested a 'fair compromise' of £50.

Glasgow Live · Feb 27, 2023

Controversial Liverpool green bin charge returns for second year

More than 42,000 households signed up for the hotly debated £40 charge last year

Liverpool Echo · Feb 27, 2023

Fed up Lanarkshire locals demand ban on disposable vapes after increasing amounts found littered

Hamilton and Blantyre Litter Pickers say more and more vapes are being found during clean-ups.

Daily Record · Feb 27, 2023

Plastic consumption on course to nearly double by 2050 - research

Plastic use in G20 countries is on course to nearly double by the middle of the century unless a comprehensive and legally binding global treaty to curb consumption is drawn up, according to research published on Monday.

Reuters · Feb 27, 2023

REDcycle's parent company to be wound up

The company behind Australia's failed REDcycle recycling scheme will be wound up after it left stockpiles of soft plastics across the country.

AAP · Feb 26, 2023

Belfast's environmentally friendly period kit giveaway back after huge success

It helped almost 9 in 10 reduced their use of single use period products like pads and tampons

Belfast Live · Feb 26, 2023

May I have a word about… the wonderful wizard of waste

Job descriptions are becoming ever more weird. Here’s one to conjure with…

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2023

New flagship store opens in Nottingham's Victoria Centre

It's the eighth store for the brand which sells second hand clothes for men and women

Nottingham Post · Feb 24, 2023

VW EVs To Have Interiors With More Recycled Bottles, Marine Debris

The company's ID family will get innovations introduced with the ID. Buzz.

Motor1 · Feb 24, 2023