A debt-ridden Labour council wants to spend £4.4 million to replace all its household waste wheelie bins with smaller ones. Kirklees Council believes the move to reduce the size of bins by 25 per cent ...

Plans to tackle the issue of wheelie bins "blighting" a historic town centre are set to be explored. Tewkesbury Borough Council's scrutiny committee will investigate how the council can curb the ...

Best of Reader Comments - take this idea out with the trash... Plans to introduce high-tech wheelie bins so that householders can be charged for the amount of garbage they produce have been trashed by ...

Householders in Stirling are to get an additional wheelie bin - for glass - which will be collected every eight weeks. Members of the council’s environment, transport and net zero committee ...

Black wheelie bins could be slashed in size by a quarter in a town hall drive to boost recycling. Environment chiefs want to gradually roll smaller general waste bins out across Manchester as they ...

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It began life among the spectacular landscape of Cumberland, perhaps in the shadow of a Lake District mountain or overlooking a picturesque village. But this humble wheelie bin has mysteriously been ...