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Big changes are coming to how waste and recycling are collected in Southend, and the council wants to ensure residents are fully informed. From October 28, 2025, most households will switch to using ...

Hosting festive dinners and gift exchanges can result in much-needed waste collections as bins begin to overflow with the ...

SOUTHEND Council has been accused of being over-ambitious on its recycling targets despite having not met them for several years. Between 2017 and 2023 the council had a shortfall on its targets of ...

An Essex council has been left puzzled after finding a wheelie bin that seems to have travelled all the way from North West England. The plastic bin, labelled Cumberland Council, turned up about 330 ...

Free-roaming ponies and donkeys in the New Forest, Hampshire, were seen scattering waste following the roll out of wheelie ...