In a quiet street in highly exclusive Belgravia, Westminster residents are planning legal due to a skip falling through their road, leaving a 15ft gaping hole that could take months to fix.  The skip was outside a residents house due to their neighbours extending their basement space to make way for additional rooms.  It seems the road the skip [...]

2010 has seen a 13% increase in plastic milk bottle recycling from 57% in 2009 to 70% this year. Recoup, the national charity set up to develop the recylcing of plastic bottles, believe this increase is due to councils developing their ‘kerbside’ collection policies, with 4 out of 5 milk cartons being recycled coming from [...]

Stockton Council, who introduced rules relating to skip hire recently have been forced to relax the rules after a series of complaints by skip hire companies in the Stockton area.  The council introduced rules relating to the safety of skips on the road, enforcing things such as cones, chevrons and lighting around the skips, however, [...]