On 10 April 2016 the cost of a bulky waste collection increased from £15 for up to 3 items, with up to 2 additional items for £5 each, to £30 for up to 5 items – that is the minimum charge has doubled from £15 to £30. Given the number of residents that have been […]

See how your rubbish is turned into electricity! Join Recycle for Greater Manchester (R4GM) for a tour of the Thermal Recovery facility on Raikes Lane, Bolton. The facility turns grey bin waste into enough electricity to power up to 14,000 homes. On the tour you’ll get to see inside a furnace which reaches temperatures of […]

One of the things that makes the Prestwich area nice is probably the amount of trees we have. Not sure if it is true, but we’ve always been told that the previous Prestwich Borough Council (which existed until 1974) had a very proactive policy of planting trees which a generation later we are seeing the […]

Just to give people an update on the issue of the pigeons causing a nuisance on the bridge at Fairfax Road. The netting, which was repaired at our request about 18 months ago, seems to have become damaged (perhaps by traffic) and as a result the pavement underneath the bridge has become both unpleasant and […]

On 5th October, new plastic bag charges came into force across England. This was something which was was pushed by the Liberal Democrats during the Coalition Government, but has only just come into effect. In the last year that stats are available (2013) supermarkets handed out 8.3 BILLION plastic bags – that is an average […]

The Mersey Rivers Basin Trust has been working to raise awareness about water quality / habitat / ecology issues around the rivers and lakes of our region. The Trust is holding it’s first “official” event this coming Sunday on the River Irwell at Dumers Lane in Radcliffe, everyone is welcome to join in and help […]

The Mersey Rivers Basin Trust has been working to raise awareness about water quality / habitat / ecology issues around the rivers and lakes of our region. The Trust is holding it’s first “official” event this coming Sunday on the River Irwell at Dumers Lane in Radcliffe, everyone is welcome to join in and help […]

Bury Council has been celebrating this week that in the last six months the amount of rubbish we are putting in our grey bins has reduced by 3,923 tonnes. On the face of it, this is great news: less waste to landfill or incineration is VERY good for the environment; less rubbish in our grey […]

Two further bins updates: (a) Simister A number of residents have been in touch because their bins (of various colours) are not being emptied on the (new) collection day (Thursday), and are instead being collected on Friday. I have been in touch with the Waste Management Team, Simister is at the end of a larger […]

At the last Full Council meeting of Bury Council I asked about the ‘start-up’ costs of the new three-weekly bin collection system. I know a lot of us experienced extra bin collections at the weekend, and a number of people had asked how much this was costing: Councillor T Pickstone Could the Leader please provide […]