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Sarah Robinson, Operations Manager, stood in a yellow high viz coat and a striped black and white jumper is poking out underneath. Her light brown hair is tied back and she is smiling. She is stood on a balcony at the Longue Houge waste site, where recycling bins are in the blurred background of the image. The sky is a dusk light, with peach clouds and darkening blue.

Post-Christmas push for reducing waste

Guernsey Waste wants islanders to consider how much waste they are producing after the busy period.

Green and black bins lined up against a brick wall.

Concern at council's three-week bin cycle proposal

One person wrote "rotting waste" sitting outside their home for three weeks would be unhygienic.

The entrance to Elland Household Waste Recycling Centre, with snow on the ground outside.

Tip saved from closure as council reduces hours

Calderdale Council will shut all its sites for two days per week rather than closing down Elland.

A hand holding a large clear wattle bottle being dropped into a recycling waste bin. There are dozens of other plastic bottles in the large bin.

Petition against recycling site booking system

A petition against a booking system at sites in East Sussex is signed by more than 2,000 people.

Someone's hand poking through into a skip holding a plastic bottle.

Recycling centres could shut for two new facilities

The authority says its existing facilities are at "a critical investment juncture".

Beds, Herts & Bucks

Picture of several empty toothpaste tubes. You can see the back of the toothpaste tubes with ingredients and various symbols including the recycling symbol. Many of the tubes are Colgate-branded toothpaste

Toothpaste tubes now recyclable in Somerset

Somerset is "leading the way" in toothpaste tube recycling across the UK.

Two used nappies against a grey backdrop.

Nappy recycling trial set to start in the spring

Material recovered from the nappies is due to be broken to be used in road surfacing.

Science & Environment

Four volunteers collecting old Christmas trees to raise money for Dorothy House Hospice. They are wearing orange hard hats and a small pile of Christmas trees is visible at their feed, while behind them is a machine that shreds the trees

Volunteers collecting Christmas trees for charity

The team expect to collect more than 5,700 trees across 18 different postcodes.

Signage at the Swindon Road household recycling centre in Cheltenham with an area of grass behind it

'Clarity' needed on future of recycling site

An MP starts a petition as the local council says the Cheltenham centre will close "indefinitely".

Gloucestershire