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The garden waste service had been heavily subsidised by council tax payers for many years. However, during the budget consultation last year, residents supported the removal of this subsidy and expressed a preference for a staged process, the cost of which was approved by the council. An increase of £15 will be implemented over three years, rising by £5 each year. Resident Nigel Bowsher said: “A year ago the council introduced fortnightly collections instead of weekly collection yet the licence fee remained at £30. “On Wednesday, February 24 they raised the fee to £40 per bin per year, and I think it is excessive but I would be happy to pay £40 if they reinstated the weekly collections.
Circular Economy must be top of the business agenda in 2021
Published 1 month ago CEO of CDSL, the UK’s leading appliance spare parts distributor
The last year has been one in which we were all forced to change our behaviour. We have become far more familiar with the four walls of our home than we would have liked, we have had to give up the social activities that mean the most to us and we have spent much longer apart from relatives than we could have imagined.
But alongside the many reluctant changes that we have made, there have been some silver linings. Both consumers and businesses have reassessed their priorities, and we have seen a noticeable increase in the importance of sustainability and social value in everything we do.
Smart sustainable plastic packaging projects for recycle week
22 September 2020
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is announcing nearly one quarter of a million pounds in funding for projects to address plastic waste and improve the UK’s recycling capabilities during Recycle Week.
The funding is being awarded as part of the Feasibility Studies for Demonstrators competition, a constituent of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) challenge, run on behalf of the UK government.
The projects aim to help the UK tackle the challenge of plastic pollution in the environment through the development of a more sustainable plastic packaging value chain in the UK.