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Merry Christmas – Opening Times

With all the Christmas parties and get togethers with family and friends over the holiday period, there’s always a lot of rubbish. If you’re in need on an extra wheelie bin before Christmas then you’re in luck. We’ll be delivering our popular Next Day Delivery wheelie bins up until the 23rd December. To make sure you get your wheelie bins in time you need to have placed your order before 12pm on Tuesday 22nd December. The quickest way to do this is through our website and you can now pay using your PayPal account as well as the usual card… Read more

21st December 2015 0

Let’s Clean for the Queen

Keep Britain Tidy and Eco Schools have teamed together to start their next big clean – ‘Clean for the Queen’ in 2016. The ‘Clean for the Queen’ campaigned was launched in September’s issue of the Country Life magazine, outlining the aim to tidy and clean up the UK in time for the Queen’s 90th Birthday. What’s the Plan? The campaign is hoped to bring together an army of volunteers across the UK who will clean up their local areas over the next 9 months. There will also be a dedicated clean up weekend on the 4-6th March 2016 where everyone… Read more

14th October 2015 0

Birmingham Recycling Target Risen

Birmingham accepts the challenge of 35% recycling target. Birmingham City Council has decided to keep the 35% recycling target for the next year after talk it would be lowered to 30%. The council’s cabinet member for sustainability stated that the lower target was a recommended goal within the 2014/15 report on performance monitoring and was only that low due to a ‘technical error’. The suggested lowering of the target called in to question the green credentials of the council and a verbal amendment to the report was made in order to clarify that the council had no intention of lowering… Read more

14th August 2015 0

Circular Economy: EU Recycling

The UK has scrapped the idea of Europe setting new targets for recycling regardless of the warnings from the EU’s environment commissioner that the measures won’t be up for negotiation. Targets for household waste recycling are expected to be discussed in an upcoming EU ‘circular economy’ package despite the UK believing that any new targets should be put on hold. The UK reportedly would like a greater emphasis on other measures like voluntary agreements with industry and incentives to reward positive behavioural changes. Per year the UK scraps seven million tonnes of food, with several millions more tonnes of electrical… Read more

9th July 2015 0