Bins & Recycling
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- Changes are being made to the Household Recycling Centre van permit rules to help improve recycling rates at the site.
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- From Monday 06 October, small electrical items such as hair dryers and toasters can be put in the black recycling box. The new service is the next step on the councils route to 70 per cent recycling.
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- Pupils are helping to reduce food waste, thanks to a competition run by the council's school catering team...
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- Residents will soon be able to put small electrical items in the black recycling box as part of their weekly 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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