Bins & Recycling
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- From this week, a team of recycling education and enforcement officers will be visiting communities to help households struggling with too much purple-lidded bin waste...
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- All visitors to Torfaen's Household Recycling Centre will soon be required to present proof of address before entering the site...
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- From this month, a new team of Recycling Education and Enforcement Officers will be on hand to help households struggling with excess purple-lidded bin waste.
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- Crews and additional staff are working hard to catch up on the missed recycling collections outstanding from this week
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- If you've spotted bright red bags next to public bins, they're a sign litter volunteers have been working in your local area.
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- Council chief executive Stephen Vickers has apologised for delays to waste and recycling collections over the past few days
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- Cabinet members have approved a plan to increase recycling rates in line with the Welsh Government's 70 per cent target.
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- A peaceful protest has been held to raise the issue of dog fouling at a local park.
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- Plastic bottles, crisp packets, vapes, a dog bed, and a lonely shoe are just some of the items of rubbish picked up as part of Torfaen's annual Spring Clean.
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- A former headteacher has thanked a council refuse team for saving his life when he had a heart attack.
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- This year's Keep Torfaen Tidy Spring Clean aims to be our biggest one yet!
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- There will be no changes to collection days in the week leading up to Christmas...
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- Cabinet members have approved a Waste Education and Enforcement Policy which will come into place in 2025...
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- Residents will start receiving their new red recycling bags this week.
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- The delivery of the red recycling bags has been delayed by a couple of weeks due to supply chain issues.
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- This year, as well as the food waste caddy, pumpkins can also be put in the garden waste bins to be recycled.
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- Households will soon receive their new red recycling bag.
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- This Recycle Week, we're backing Wales Recycles' mighty mission to get to No.1 in the world for recycling, and we need YOUR help to get us there!
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- New red recycling bags for plastics, tins, cans and cartons are being delivered to households.
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- Several primary schools have reduced their food waste by a third on average, thanks to a competition by the council's catering service...
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- Scrutiny members have given their views on a draft Waste Education and Enforcement Policy.
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- Plans to introduce new recycling bags to help improve the efficiency of the service and reduce litter have been given the go-ahead
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- Plans to introduce a new recycling bag are being considered as part of the council's Raise the Recycling Rate campaign.
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- Sixty new signs are to put up in litter and fly-tipping hotspots across the borough in a bid to deter people from dropping or dumping rubbish.
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- A scout group from Pontypool has turned items commonly found as litter into a sculpture...
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- From Friday 24 May, the locations in Torfaen where residents can collect recycling boxes, bags and caddies will change
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- The Household Recycling Centre team has resumed meeting and greeting visitors to the site in New Inn.
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- Did you know that in the first year of their life a baby will produce around 78 bin bags full of disposable nappies?...
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- Plastic bottles, crisp packets, vapes, a broken E-Scooter, and a car head rest are just some of the items of rubbish picked up as part of Torfaen's annual Spring Clean.
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- Crews will be working the Easter bank holidays this year so there are no changes to collection days...
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- Here in Wales we're proud recyclers, and that's made us the third best recyclers IN THE WORLD...
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- The Torfaen Spring Clean 2024 is due to start Saturday 30 March at Pontypool Park at 11am
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- Fortnightly garden waste collections in Torfaen will restart week beginning Monday 04 March...
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- The Torfaen Repair Café can now repair broken ceramics thanks to a new volunteer...
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- Cabinet members have approved a plan to improve the waste and recycling service and increase recycling.
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