Veolia and the South London Waste Partnership are Getting Real for Recycle Week 17 – 23 October 2022

Veolia and the South London Waste Partnership are Getting Real for Recycle Week 17 – 23 October 2022

Now in its eighteenth year, Recycle Now’s Recycle Week is the nation’s biggest annual celebration of recycling. This year the South London Waste partnership boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton will... Read more »
Tour inside North London Waste Authority processing plant

Tour inside North London Waste Authority processing plant

A £1.2 billion project to rebuild north London’s waste facility is steaming ahead. While work on the highly controversial incinerator at Edmonton EcoPark in Enfield has yet to begin, construction is underway... Read more »
Wanstead teen tackles school’s ‘boat load’ of plastic waste

Wanstead teen tackles school’s ‘boat load’ of plastic waste

A local teenager is determined to tackle the “boat load” of plastic waste binned daily at her school in Wanstead. Zalayka Azam, 17, has written an “environmental exposé” about Wanstead High School,... Read more »
Labour-run council blames heatwave for suspending food and garden waste collections for a MONTH

Labour-run council blames heatwave for suspending food and garden waste collections for a MONTH

Fury as Labour-run council blames the heatwave for suspending food and garden waste collections for a MONTH – with some residents forced to wait six weeks before ‘rotting food’ bins are taken... Read more »
Wandsworth waste collection centres set for four days of industrial action – South London News

Wandsworth waste collection centres set for four days of industrial action – South London News

BY JAMES [email protected] A “stinking summer” looms as strikes by refuse workers and employees at waste collection centres could spark months of bin chaos. Workers at two waste collection centres, in Wandsworth and... Read more »
British man found dead on a waste tip in Spain after going missing for 3 weeks – World News

British man found dead on a waste tip in Spain after going missing for 3 weeks – World News

We’ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story Police are investigating the death of Denis Walker ( Image: SOLARPIX.COM) A British man’s body has... Read more »
Waste water in London, Ont. is showing high COVID positivity

Waste water in London, Ont. is showing high COVID positivity

Waste water data has become a valuable asset in determining the level of COVID-19 within a community and in London, it shows an increase. The January surge of Omicron quickly dissipated in... Read more »
South west London boroughs slam inaction of private waste collection firm

South west London boroughs slam inaction of private waste collection firm

The firm responsible for collecting waste in Merton was served with a formal Service Improvement Notice (SIN) on Monday, after years of pressure from the community. Since 2003, the boroughs of Merton,... Read more »
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Tsunami of waste hits record 1.1 MILLION cases in a year

Fly-tipping has been effectively decriminalised across swathes of the country because councils have given up prosecuting offenders. Three in five local authorities failed to carry out a single prosecution last year for... Read more »
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Only this much household waste is recycled in south east London

New figures have revealed how much household waste is recycled, reused or composted in each council area in south east London. The data, made of local authority collected waste stastics, breaks it down... Read more »