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An image representing the average contents of a South Gloucestershire black bin (by volume) based on waste analysis completed in 2022.

Recycling at the heart of changes to waste management in South Glos

jw47 - 11th March 2024

Patchway man prosecuted for waste offences

Have Your Say: Council launches public consultation on 2018/19 budget

Staple Hill’s Page Park receives National Lottery investment

Council Leader Councillor Toby Savage next to solar panels

South Gloucestershire recognised among top-10 Councils in National Climate Emergency Action Plan Scorecards

Fly-tipped fridges

Soundwell man ordered to pay over £1,400 following roadside fly-tip

Editor - 12th November 2024
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Commercial vehicles carrying poorly secured loads stopped to help tackle roadside...

Editor - 24th May 2022
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Roll out of new bins will help boost recycling rates

Editor - 11th January 2018
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Prosecution follows waste filmed thrown from car window

Editor - 10th January 2017
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Staple Hill’s Page Park receives National Lottery investment

Editor - 1st June 2016
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Innovative new hybrid glass flood defence in place on Severn Estuary

Editor - 24th February 2022
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West of England leaders

Councils working together to secure more powers

Simon - 1st September 2015
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Councillor Steve Reade is pictured with Marshfield residents, including members of the parish council, Marshfield Community Centre and Sustainable Marshfield.

Council commits to more electric vehicle charge points

jw47 - 15th March 2023
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A water vole

Water voles settle into new home at one of UK’s newest...

Editor - 20th June 2023
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Patchway man prosecuted following Little Stoke fly-tip

Editor - 24th February 2021
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Improvement work for recycling facility at Mangotsfield

Editor - 16th January 2017
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Envirocrime team win national award

Editor - 24th October 2018
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South Gloucestershire News March 2022

March 2022 edition of South Gloucestershire News

Editor - 18th March 2022
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Council employees recognised for public service

Editor - 1st June 2016
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Page Park turf cut event

Editor - 24th November 2016
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Spray insulation scams on the rise in South Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire

jw47 - 7th January 2022
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Warehouse fire update

Simon - 6th December 2017
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Last chance for public engagement on final draft of West of...

Editor - 4th January 2018
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Councillor Louise Harris, Emily Harrison from the School Leadership Team, Active Travel Champion Beverley Furber and school children at The Ridge Juniors in Yate

South Gloucestershire schools handed top sustainable travel awards

Editor - 27th September 2023
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Fly-tipped waste on a grass verge

Former Patchway man prosecuted for Aust fly-tip

Editor - 29th October 2025
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a fly-tipped sofa on the roadside

Gwent man handed 120 hours community service and ordered to pay...

Editor - 13th January 2025
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Recycling success celebrated in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 26th September 2018
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A photograph of fly-tipped waste in Filton

Severn Beach man fined £1,588 for fly-tipping in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 20th October 2022
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Daphne Dunning, Clerk of Pucklechurch Parish Council; Councillor Rick Dunning, Pucklechurch Parish Council environment lead; Councillor Gail Boyle, Chair of Pucklechurch Parish Council; Councillor Maggie Tyrrell, Leader, South Gloucestershire Council; Councillor Louise Harris, South Gloucestershire Council’s cabinet member for the climate and nature emergency; Richard Higgs, Director, Western Forest; Laura Norton, Partnerships Manager for the Forest of Avon and Mia Ridler, Green Infrastructure Officer, West of England Combined Authority.

First trees planted in Pucklechurch Wood as landmark step towards creating...

Editor - 28th November 2025
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Fly-tipped waste

Chippenham man ordered to pay over £1,700 following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 11th January 2024
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High Street changes to support traders and environment developed to help...

jw47 - 28th May 2021
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A large pile of tyres

Cadbury Heath man handed Conditional Discharge and fined for illegally storing...

Editor - 28th April 2026
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Fly-tipped waste

Fly-tippers face justice for illegally dumping waste in South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 31st March 2022
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South Gloucestershire Council commits to phasing out single use plastics

Editor - 1st March 2019
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First South Gloucestershire Tree Week launches

jw47 - 29th November 2019
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A car and a van parked on a pavement

Yate man ordered to pay over £5,000 following abandoned vehicles offences

Editor - 21st May 2024
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Fly tippers prosecuted

Editor - 22nd August 2017
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Recycling and containers

Plastic bags and wrapping recycling to expand to reach 22,000 South...

Editor - 8th April 2024
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New multi-million pound housing development under way in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 20th December 2016
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Dumped bags of rubbish

South Gloucestershire Council secures two more fly-tip convictions

Editor - 28th November 2024
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Advertising signs on a pallet propped against a traffic light signal

Driveway business ordered to pay over £4,500 for illegal fly posting

Editor - 20th March 2024
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A photograph of fly-tipped waste near a lamp post

Keynsham man ordered to pay £1,193 following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 18th October 2022
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CCTV of waste being placed in a public bin

Filton convenience store owner ordered to pay almost £500 for illegal...

Editor - 15th May 2025
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Gavel and judge

North Somerset rogue trader sentenced for conning NHS worker from Thornbury

jw47 - 26th April 2021
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Gavel and judge

Birmingham man fined for waste offences in South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 2nd February 2022
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Children and staff from The Park Primary School in Kingswood celebrate their Modeshift STARS accreditation.

South Gloucestershire schools top national league table for sustainable and...

jw47 - 12th June 2025
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A worker fixing a solar panel on a roof

South Glos Council to install solar PV systems on schools and...

jw47 - 9th December 2024
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Wick man prosecuted for waste offence

Editor - 24th July 2018
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Pontypool man sentenced following multiple fly-tips in South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 17th July 2019
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Common Connections officer David Tibbatts, Bobbie Sutherland and Paul Kearsley from Emersons Green Town Council, and Councillor Louise Harris at the bulb planting

Common Connections project sees over 85,000 spring bulbs planted in South...

Editor - 18th December 2024
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Councillor Drew with Parkwall Primary School children and parents

School children perform wildlife show to support nature recovery project

Editor - 9th October 2023
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Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore and South Gloucestershire Council Leader Cllr Toby Savage with representatives of the Friends of Southey Park planting the new trees at Southey Park

South Gloucestershire Council plants over 600 new trees across the area...

Editor - 10th March 2022
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Cllr Ian Boulton and Cllr Maggie Tyrrell

South Gloucestershire Council calls on the Government to enforce planning requirements...

jw47 - 17th October 2024
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Ambitious new recycling service given the go-ahead

Editor - 6th October 2016
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West of England leaders visit Bristol Port as vital flood defences...

Editor - 24th March 2022
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