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Fire destroys major ACT recycling centre

Firefighters have worked through the night to get a major fire at a recycling centre in Canberra's south under control but the facility has been destroyed.

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Canberra recycling centre fire sparked overnight likely to burn for days

An investigation will be launched into the circumstances of the fire, which broke out in the main warehouse of the facility on Monday night.

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Rethinking the big spring clean chuck-out frenzy: how keeping old things away from the landfill can 'spark joy' in its own way

Driving home recently, I encountered a familiar sight: four dining chairs on the kerb waiting for some sucker to rescue them. Loading them into the car (sucker!) I wondered: how long were these chairs in shed limbo-land before finally getting kicked to the kerb?

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A day with a bin crew trialling Cardiff's controversial new recycling system

City waste officials say they're trying to reduce the amount of contamination, like unwashed out food jars, that contaminates entire bags of recycling

Wales Online

Rise in fly-tipping in Carmarthenshire feared when recycling changes come in

Black bin bags will only be picked up once every three weeks from the end of January

Wales Online

All the Glasgow Christmas and New Year bin collection dates you need to know

Recycling bins are going to be important during the festive season so it's handy to know when they're going to get emptied. Glasgow City Council has changed collection dates over Christmas and the New Year.

Glasgow Live

I tried going zero-waste for a week and this is what I learnt

The growing zero-waste movement empowers individuals to take a stand against the world's pervasive rubbish problem

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Charges laid over failed recycling program

Victoria's Environment Protection Authority has laid charges after the nation's largest soft plastic recycling scheme was shut down.

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North East bin collection dates for Christmas and New Year including Newcastle, Northumberland, Durham and Sunderland

Christmas and New Year bin collections for Newcastle, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Durham and Gateshead

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Wirral Council flooded with 2,500 complaints over overflowing bins

Some furious people have threatened to withhold their council tax if the overflowing bins are not picked up

Liverpool Echo

Midlothian quarry owners want to move recycling centre onto rural site

Planning officers say recycling centres are more suited to industrial estates than the countrside and there is a 'presumption against approving the plans' which will be on display at public exhibitions in the new year

Edinburgh Live

The rise of the rental Christmas tree: This is why everyone’s renting their festive firs this year

Feeling guilty about the fading Christmas tree in your living room? Look no further, because there’s Christmas tree rentals abound this year

Evening Standard

Christmas recycling rules to help households use the right wheelie bin during festive period

A handy guide to recycling cards, crackers, wrapping paper, tin foil trays and more.

Daily Record

Soft plastics recycling operator REDcycle charged by Victoria's environmental watchdog

Victoria's environmental watchdog charges the operators of the REDcycle program used by major supermarkets, alleging the company secretly stockpiled plastic bags.

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Belfast City Council details bin collection dates for Christmas

There is "a shortage of drivers"

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Dog poo start-up scoops funding for growth

Edinburgh-based business plans to expand into Europe next year

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Co Tyrone bin collection and recycling centre opening times over Christmas

From Christmas Eve there may be some disruption to the standard bin collection and centre opening days in Mid Ulster, Fermanagh and Omagh and Derry and Strabane

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Fermanagh and Omagh bin collection and recycling centre opening times over Christmas

From Christmas Eve there may be some disruption to the standard bin collection and centre opening days

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Gold Coast council considers waste-to-energy facility as it predicts $158 million landfill bill over next decade

With an anticipated landfill bill of $158 million over the next decade, Mayor Tom Tate is keen to investigate the prospect of a trash-fired power plant, but one expert says it's not the panacea it appears at face value.

Newcastle Herald

Council lodges plans for $54m waste centre

The recycling centre will sort plastics, paper, cardboard, glass and metals from the city's yellow kerbside bins.

Liverpool Echo

Wirral Council begs people to stop reporting overflowing bins amid Biffa strikes

The council said the missed bin collections "do not make residents eligible for a reduction in council tax bills"

Belfast Live

Derry bin collection Christmas and Boxing Day changes confirmed

There are also minor changes to opening hours for recycling centres, leisure services and visitors services

Evening Standard

Smoke billows across Kingston as 50 tonnes of waste burns

Smoke billowing across the Kingston skyline

Daily Record

Police believe body of baby found at recycling centre was dumped in 'household bin'

The new-born child, who has now been named as 'Gabriel', was tragically found dead at a recycling centre in Cambridge on November 29.

Liverpool Echo

Council issues bin advice ahead of upcoming tip strike

Waste site workers are taking industrial action over pay

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