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Interim report from £3 million pilot finds 60 per cent of household participating in doorstep recycling services

Office for Environmental Protection report for Parliament says Government needs to focus on resource efficiency and is currently likely to miss key targets 

Suez’s bid for a new 140,000 tonne waste transfer station and recycling plant in Cornwall is to be granted planning permission.

ELLESMERE Port residents will see their garden waste collection fee hiked to £50 this year.

NORTHWICH and Winsford residents will see their garden waste collection fee hiked to £50 this year.

CHESTER and Ellesmere Port residents will see garden waste collection fees hiked to £50 this year.

Updated ‘Mapping the Politics of Waste’ report analyses how factors such as devolution, an impending General Election, and differences in attitude to the environment between Labour and the Conservatives are impacting the industry.

The cross-party Westminster committee says uncertainty regarding Defra’s waste and resource strategy is impeding private investment in the sector

Households will be able to recycle more, and keep fortnightly black bin collections, under plans for Tendring’s next waste service.

North Hertfordshire and Reading councils have joined the FlexCollect pilot, the "UK's largest" flexible plastic collection trial.