Recycling

Fourteen black bin bags and loose rubbish including a bucket and cardboard dumped in long grass under trees beside a wooden fence
Baglan

PORT TALBOT: Waste man took £490 to clear a house, then 14 bags were dumped under the M4

Nathan Pearce drove the load to Briton Ferry recycling centre, spoke to staff and left, the council says. It turned…

A pile of fly-tipped plasterboard sheets, plastic sheeting, white uPVC trim and metal beading on a grass verge beside brambles
Cllr Scott Jones

CWMGWRACH: Rhondda man taken on to clear building waste dumped it on the road to Unity Mine

Shane Richards was taken on to get rid of plasterboard and plaster from an address in Treherbert. It turned up…

A Carmarthenshire Council recycling lorry with coloured compartments, parked behind blue, red and orange reusable sacks, a white battery sack and black food caddies
blue bags

CARMARTHENSHIRE: Blue bags end for a third of homes on Monday 2 November

The switch to colour-coded recycling sacks starts, mainly in the west of the county. Your letter this month confirms your…

Recycling worker tipping a pink recycling bag into the back of a kerbside recycling truck in Swansea.
air pollution

SWANSEA: No UK city recycles more, new green league table shows

The city came sixth of 94 for green living, ahead of Cardiff and Bristol. Its air scored well too, a…

Black bin bags, cardboard boxes and plastic bottles dumped on the verge of a single-track moorland road, with green fields and hills behind
Cllr Scott Jones

PONTARDAWE: Firm boss must pay almost £3,000 after three piles of business waste dumped on mountain road

The rubbish was traced back to a Swansea business, and its waste had been collected by Thomas Landek's company. He…

A pile of dumped household items including bags, bedding and a clothes airer on a gravel track across open hillside, with hills in the distance
Cllr Scott Jones

YSTRADGYNLAIS: Man hit with £1,200-plus bill for dumping household junk on Gwrhyd mountain road

Wayne Thompson's rubbish was found on the open hillside above Rhiwfawr. His fine was £440, just £40 more than a…

Three people in hi-vis vests holding litter-pickers and red rubbish bags on a roadside verge, with houses behind
Carmarthenshire Council

LITTER: You could be fined for rubbish thrown from your car even if you weren’t in it, and fly-tippers could face £5,000

The Welsh Government is asking whether the person a car is registered to should pay for whatever comes out of…

A worker in orange hi-vis clothing and a cap empties a recycling container into the side hatch of a kerbside recycling lorry, with blue recycling bags on the road beside him
Bridgend County Borough Council

BRIDGEND: Council may skip tendering rules to keep the bins emptied when it takes over collections next July

Bridgend wants to keep using some of its contractor's 130 suppliers without putting the work out to tender. Its own…

Councillor Edward Thomas in a hi-vis jacket holding a black recycling box filled with glass bottles and jars
blue bags

STICKER SHOCK: Wrong bag, wrong day, and the new Carmarthenshire bin rules that can end in court

Bin crews won't empty your own wheelie bin, holiday lets lose their collection even if they pay premium council tax,…

A pile of decommissioned office desk phones and green circuit boards awaiting recycling
Bank of England

PHONES INTO GOLD: The Bank of England’s old handsets are being mined for treasure in south Wales

Thousands of decommissioned Bank of England desk phones have gone to the Royal Mint's Reformation Metals plant, where the gold…

Composite image showing pink recycling bags outside houses in Sandfields, Swansea, and a recycling worker giving pink bags to a student at his front door.
black bags

CLINK OR STINK: Swansea bin crews will be checking your black bags from this autumn

Bottles, cans or food in the black bag? The council says it will warn first and fine if you carry…