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Hackney Council consider swapping recycling bins for sacks

Negotiations are currently taking place at Hackney Council about whether they are going to be replacing the green recycling bins everyone is familiar with with new orange sacks. The council is hoping that by introducing these orange sacks, people are going to start recycling more.

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Recycling Bins – What’s on Offer?

As per the recent developments in the environmental status of the world, it is more than likely that every resident of Earth is common with the act of recycling.  Although you may be familiar with the process, do you know what recycling includes and how it will help the environment?  Recycling is . . . → Read More: Recycling Bins – What’s on Offer?

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£100m in the pot for councils who empty recycling bins weekly

First cut as a way to try and encourage more recycling collections of weekly household rubbish will be offered to councils for close to £100m. Environmental campaigners are expected to be infuriated with the idea but the move follows many complaints the collections fortnightly have increased the amount of fly-tipping and concerns of hygiene and vermin.

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Green advocate caught fly-tipping

For some people, it would seem that trying to be green really does pay. It pays someone else, that is. Queen of green, Ruth Boden-Webster, who has been recycling for 30 years, has been accused of fly-tipping by her local Council, after she was caught green-handed dropping a bottle of washing-up liquid next to the recycling . . . → Read More: Green advocate caught fly-tipping

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