What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
People across Leeds are being encouraged to celebrate this year’s Recycle Week virtually, with a programme of digital activities planned between 21-28 September 2020 to help residents level up their recycling habits. Leeds Recycles will run a series of daily challenges across their Facebook and Twitter accounts throughout the week,
From today (15 November 2019) South Leeds residents can recycle even more types of plastic in their green recycling bin. Leeds City Council’s waste service is now able to accept most pots, tubs, trays and cartons in the green bin. Common examples include fruit juice cartons, yoghurt pots, ice-cream/butter/margarine tubs
For the previous ten years, Leeds was doing well with recycling and its household recycling figure was hitting 44 per cent — however, for 2016 and 2017, this figure unfortunately dropped to 38 per cent. There will have been a combination of reasons for this, however some of them can
Leeds residents will be sorted when it comes to recycling after the council has responded to citywide feedback suggesting people want to know more about how they can recycle more. A new handy guide produced by the council will be going out to all households in the city over the
As Leeds City Council are forced to make cutbacks to services in a bid to save money, is refuse collection the right place to make these cuts? I live in Middleton and the fortnightly bin collections are starting to become a big problem, with rubbish already piling up in
The other day I noticed the following press release on the Council’s website: “Three south Leeds women were called to appear before magistrates last month having failed to heed the council’s advice and warnings. “Leanne Gill, Claire Parle and Rozma Kauser, all from Beeston, were issued with legal notices
The Council have announced their plans for dealing with bin collections and recycling over the festive period. Black and green bin collections will be moved to avoid public holidays. the arrangements are as follows: Household Waste Sites will be open 8:00am – 4:00pm every day except Christmas Day, Boxing