Christmas tree recycling this weekend
Published on Friday, 8 January 2021
Christmas trees can be recycled free for residents at temporary sites around the borough during Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 January only.
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Published on Friday, 8 January 2021
Christmas trees can be recycled free for residents at temporary sites around the borough during Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 January only.
Published on Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Residents and others are being asked not to leave their donations of unwanted goods outside closed charity shops.
Published on Friday, 10 July 2020
Changes to the government’s social distancing rules have enabled capacity and increased appointments at both the household waste and recycling centres. Both the Waldo Road and the Churchfields Road sites are being re-organised accordingly. The sites will still see cleaning of surfaces and social distancing reminders for residents’ well-being.
Published on Monday, 4 May 2020
The council is pleased to advise residents that a limited number of green garden waste sites will be open for the remaining weekends in May.
Published on Friday, 21 June 2019
To help ease queuing times and the associated congestion, larger waste containers have been installed at Waldo Road reuse and recycling centre.
Published on Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Changes to waste collection days to deliver greater efficiency and reliability of the service alongside an improved recycling service will go ahead this autumn.
Published on Wednesday, 13 March 2019
A series of essential environment focussed contracts delivering frontline services have been agreed for an initial eight year period, with the agreements being the largest value contract ever awarded by the council.
Published on Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Residents are being encouraged to use the council’s weekly food waste collection service as the easiest and most efficient way to dispose of unwanted food waste.
Published on Tuesday, 1 November 2016
The first truck containing approximately 15 tonnes of waste left the former Waste4Fuel site in St Mary Cray today.
Published on Monday, 19 September 2016
A land deal which will finally allow work to remove the rubbish mountain on the former Waste4fuel site in Orpington to begin, has now been successfully completed.
Published on Friday, 2 September 2016
Clearance of the rubbish mountain on the former Waste4fuel site in Orpington moved a step closer today as the council’s Executive formally agreed a land deal.
Published on Tuesday, 30 August 2016
A land deal has been agreed in principle which will finally enable clearance of the rubbish mountain on the former Waste4fuel site in Orpington to begin.