Only certain takeout containers are recyclable in most places. Putting errant boxes in the blue bin only clogs up the system.

Martin Hyde of Alupro discusses the barriers to best practice bathroom recycling and why aerosols so often end up in the ...

Residents will no longer have to separate their glass recycling in Chesterfield from Monday 7 April – in an improvement which ...

Andrew Brown, deputy leader of the council's Liberal Democrat group, previously raised concerns that the decreased ...

Plans to introduce three-weekly bin collections should be ‘knocked on the head’ because current fortnightly missed collections lead to rat problems, a resident told councillors. Peter Ruse told ...

Another resident said: “This is absolutely impossible. As a family of four, my bin is full to bursting after two weeks and we recycle as much as we can. Four weeks would see us having to do ...

Commenter Kingfisher171 says: “People will continue to put food waste in the black bags as usual. Nobody wants to stink their kitchens out with these unwanted new bins.” Reader Teessidebob ...

Residents in Chelmsford must now pay for their brown bin collections, with locals questioning where their taxpayer money is going following a rise in council tax. Chelmsford City Council announced ...

Taking the bins out is a ritual carried out by people ... One such method that was recently proposed in Bristol is reducing black waste collections to every four weeks. Many other local ...

The majority of the 32 local authorities have already introduced the charge as they faced funding black ... brown bin, and the bin displays a valid permit. Householders who wish to recycle their ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – New technology is being tested at UMass Amherst to sort trash and recyclables. Knowing what to throw ...

“I recycle everything I can and put it out but ... across the city that recycling isn't being collected and black bins aren't being collected on [the current] two-weekly basis.