Carmarthenshire Council has said it's seen a "significant improvement" in its recycling performance in the six weeks since it introduced changes to its kerbside waste collections...
A Welsh Government funded inhaler recycling scheme is helping NHS Wales reduce its carbon emissions and work towards Net Zero ambitions, as a funding pot opens...
February 9 is National Pizza Day! If you're celebrating with a take-out, what should you do with your empty cardboard pizza box?
Pembrokeshire residents are once again the best recyclers in Wales, with nearly three-quarters of all waste recycled.
Wales will be introducing a Deposit Return Scheme by 2025, Climate Change Minister Julie James has confirmed.
A group of pharmacies in the Swansea and Neath Valleys are leading the way in Wales with an inhaler recycling project which could help the fight...
Market traders are offering a new free service – they’re providing customers with Swansea Council recycling bags.
This year, Bridgend County Borough has been listed in the top two best performing local authority areas in Wales for recycling. The county borough’s recycling rate...
Santander has launched a pilot scheme across 28 UK branches including Swansea, allowing expired and unused plastic credit and debit cards to be recycled.
Carmarthenshire Council have announced that its changes to recycling and black bag collections will start from Monday 23 January 2023. The changes mean that black bag...
A new commercial waste recycling centre located in Nantycaws launched this week by Carmarthenshire County Council in partnership with CWM Environmental Ltd. Located next to Nantycaws...
New and returning students coming to Swansea to study are being encouraged to ‘get it sorted’ and recycle their household waste. Now that the new study...
Earlier this year, five ‘cosmic visitors’ landed in Porthcawl to help keep the area clean and tidy and local schools have helped come up with some...
Swansea Council say they’ll be suspending all non-essential services on Monday, September 19 to mark the late Her Majesty The Queen’s State Funeral. The day is...
Neath Port Talbot Council has covered its bin lorries in huge adverts urging residents to cut food waste – something the council describes as ‘throwing money...
Specsavers in Swansea is offering customers the chance to recycle their glasses and contact lenses in-store for free. The new initiative comes after the high-street opticians...
Neath Port Talbot residents will now be able to present disposable nappies and other absorbent hygiene products like incontinence pads and absorbent bedsheets separately as part...
Resource recovery expert Fiberight has embarked on leading a three-year £10 million large-scale demonstrator project focused on the capture, recovery and recycling of plastic packaging currently...
A brand new washplant at an aggregate recycling facility at Cwmgwili in Carmarthenshire is the largest in Wales according to family-owned recycling company Gavin Griffiths Group....
Garden centre, Dobbies in Swansea has launched a new initiative which means local residents can now recycle their compost bags. Compost packaging is typically difficult for people to recycle as very few local...
Carmarthenshire Council are advising residents who usually have refuse and recycling collections on Thursdays and Fridays that there will be no collections this week over the...
Families in Carmarthenshire can now sign up for free fortnightly collections of children’s nappies. Carmarthenshire County Council is launching a new collection service for households to...
The Royal Mint has announced plans to build a world first plant in South Wales to recover gold from UK electronic waste. The pioneering facility will...
Wales – ranked third in the world for domestic recycling – has joined forces with other UK nations to introduce new ‘polluter pays’ rules to make...
Neath Port Talbot Council is making big changes at its waste facility at Crymlyn Burrows to meet modern requirements. For many years the Materials Recovery and...
Wales is taking action against marine litter as it becomes the first UK nation to introduce a recycling scheme for fishing gear. The first collection, which...
Partnership comes as research reveals 67% of gardeners in Swansea want to recycle more garden waste products this spring. Two industry leading horticultural brands have joined forces to provide...
Parents in Carmarthenshire will soon be able to recycle their children’s nappies. Carmarthenshire County Council is launching a free fortnightly collection service for parents to recycle...
The Welsh Government has trialled using recycled nappies to resurface a stretch of road on the A487 between Cardigan and Aberystwyth. Fibres from 4.3 tonnes of...
A new shop selling repaired and reused items donated by the public will open its doors in Llanelli Town Centre this week as part of a...
The first phase of a new recycling project to help save usable items from being thrown away at Carmarthenshire Council’s recycling centres is being launched. The...
A new partnership between Tesco and packaging manufacturer, Berry Global is now recycling soft plastic collected from customers at Tesco stores. Tesco say they have rapidly...
Neath Port Talbot housing association, Tai Tarian’s paint suppliers Crown Paints have donated a bench with a difference to a Haven scheme in Crynant, made entirely...
Resource recovery expert Fiberight has set up a new facility and Centre of Excellence in Swansea that will use innovative resource recovery techniques to increase the...
Family-run business, Gavin Griffiths Recycling came out top at the Growing Business Awards 2021 This is the second award for the Swansea-based business this year, after...
For the second year in a row Pembrokeshire’s residents have been crowned the best recyclers in Wales. The Welsh Government has confirmed that Pembrokeshire remained the...
Carmarthenshire Council have announced when they plan to start implementing major changes to kerbside waste and recycling collection in the county – with the first changes...
Wales – currently ranked third in the world in recycling- upheld its stellar recycling rates last year despite the pandemic, new 2020-21 stats have revealed today....
A Swansea researcher has invented a new type of plastic packaging for raw meat which avoids the need for non-recyclable pads inside the trays to soak...
Pembrokeshire County Council is planning to build an “Eco Park” to support the county’s kerbside recycling collection service. The council are urging people to give their...
Householders in Neath Port Talbot who leave additional bin bags at the side of their wheelie bins are being warned they could face enforcement action. The...
Carmarthenshire Council are urging householders in Carmarthenshire not to dispose of batteries in black or blue bin bags. It comes after strong evidence suggests that a...
Extra support is being provided to new and returning students in Swansea to help them manage their household waste. Swansea Council’s Recycling Team has partnered up...
Morrisons has announced this week it is launching a fully reusable Halloween costume range for children – made from 100% responsibly sourced materials – in a...
Carmarthenshire Council’s proposed radical changes of household recycling and waste collection have been discussed at a council scrutiny meeting ahead of a final decision by the...
A new scheme to enhance children’s access to outdoor activity and extend Pembrokeshire’s recycling performance into the sports arena is currently being piloted in four schools....
Sustainable fashion fans have the chance to pick up pre-loved designer labels at Swansea’s favourite re-use shop’s newly-extended clothing section Swansea Council’s Tip Treasures in Llansamlet...
Swansea’s favourite re-use shop at Tip Treasures in Llansamlet has been extended and refurbished to include new sections for re-used wood products. Shoppers heading for the...
A recent study by sustainable online subscription platform Bower Collective has uncovered the amount of single-use plastic produced by the average UK home, broken down by each room/area...
Swansea beach-goers are being urged to do the right thing and take their rubbish home with them this summer, especially disposable BBQs. For the busy summer...
A familiar name on the country’s bin collections has been fined £1.5 million for breaking export law, in what the judge called “reckless, bordering on deliberate.”...
Swansea cares most in Wales about recycling and loose leaf tea: but cares the least about reusable coffee cups and zero-waste shopping a new study by...
Following a successful trial in the North East of England, 520 Sainsbury’s stores will now offer a recycling system for all flexible plastics. The scheme, which...
A Gower-based solar energy provider has pledged match-funding to a Swansea group which organises apple harvesting from overlooked trees and orchards to feed those in need...
Carmarthenshire County Council is launching a six-week engagement exercise to gather views on proposals for the future of household recycling collections. The council is looking at...
Underwear, Wedding Dresses & Banjos: The Weirdest Items Welsh Leave Behind When Moving Home We all had a “Lost Belongings” box at school – the equally...
Carmarthenshire County Council and CWM Environmental Ltd have unveiled exciting plans for a new ‘re-use village’ in Nantycaws which will close the loop on waste within...
Visitors to Tip Treasures will find their favourite re-use shop has been extended and refurbished to include a swish new clothing section, thanks to funding from...
Co-op will remove plastic bags for life from sale in all 2,600 stores warning that the low-cost, reusable bag has become the new single-use carrier. The announcement...
Carmarthenshire Council are reminding householders that there are changes to bin collections over the May Bank Holiday. From Monday, May 3 until Friday, May 7, collections...
Local residents are advised to keep their doors and windows closed as a fire at a Carmarthen recycling centre continues for a second day. Huge plumes...
Neath Port Talbot Council is making changes to the recycling service for businesses and larger complexes of flats. The Council says the service is part of...
A Police Constable has come up with an innovative way to reuse old force riot shields which otherwise would have gone to waste and ultimately, landfill....
Sainsbury’s has today announced it is sending plastic straws packing, by removing them from its own brand range of lunchbox juice cartons – removing a whopping...
The Welsh Government is setting out a package of measures linked to its Beyond Recycling strategy announced earlier this month. They form a part of Wales’ drive towards becoming...
Tesco has begun rolling out soft plastic recycling points to 171 stores in the South West of England and Wales with plans to roll out to...
City residents have been increasing the amount of recycling they do during the pandemic and are on course to hit the Welsh government’s 64% recycling target...
A Deposit Return Scheme, reviewing enforcement arrangements and incentives for businesses to produce more environmentally-friendly packaging are some of the proposals in a new report. Minister...
Households in Swansea will be able to recycle more of their Christmas waste this year. Swansea Council will now be allowing some types of Christmas wrapping...
Thank God (and Queen) it’s Christmas and Pembrokeshire has claimed the coveted festive number one spot. And following news that Pembrokeshire has topped the recycling charts...
As Wales’ recycling rate reaches an all-time high, people in Wales are being encouraged to keep up their ‘mighty’ efforts when it comes to recycling this...
Pembrokeshire residents are the top recyclers in the country, it’s been announced. The Welsh Government has named Pembrokeshire as the best-performing local authority area for recycling...
The recycling rate for Wales has reached a record high, with the country as a whole exceeding the latest recycling target and achieving 65.14% for 2019/20,...
A pilot recycling scheme launched in Swansea city centre in 2019 has led to a huge increase in recycling. Shoppers in the city centre helped Swansea...
Recycling dynamo Amanda Absalom-Lowe of Haverfordwest has been named by BBC Radio 4 as one of 30 inspiring women whose work is making a positive difference...