Recycling Tag

Plymouth City Council fined £8000 for WEEE breach

Plymouth City Council has been fined £8,000 for allowing unauthorised firms to remove and sell unwanted computers from its waste plants. The council breached the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) by letting firms take computers and other electronic items without checking that they were bona fide recyclers. The Environment Agency took the council [...]

Council Taxpayers face fixed penalties for excess Christmas rubbish

Council Taxpayers in Northampton are incensed with their Council’s warning that any resident who leaves out too much refuse over the Christmas holidays may be fined for fly tipping. Householders, some of whom who will not have their refuse collected for several weeks, may face fines of £100 if surplus rubbish is left outside of [...]

Council threatened mum over charity bags

Durham County Council officials warned a mother of two that charity bags left in her garden could have faced prosecution after they claimed the bags were refuse and an eyesore. Two community wardens arrived at Ms Michelle Devine’s home in Peterlee and told her that 4 charity bags for ‘We Save The Children’ left on [...]