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Recycling vehicle

Major changes to South Gloucestershire’s recycling and waste services from August 2025

Editor - 17th June 2025
Recycling and containers

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

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

Wraxall Road junction improvements complete following £6.9m investment

A box filled with bottles of seized fake hand sanitiser

Covid hand sanitiser fraud pair sent to prison

An empty kitchen after Brown ripped out the units

Company director jailed for multiple thefts from customers

Editor - 30th June 2025
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Launch of Call For Sites process as part of developing the...

Editor - 8th July 2020
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South Gloucestershire residents encouraged to plant their own tree during Tree...

jw47 - 25th November 2020
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Waste operatives loading recycling on to a truck

South Gloucestershire’s impressive recycling rate continues to rise

Editor - 28th March 2023
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Green ecological house in empty field

Energy efficient Malmains Drive development progresses

Editor - 31st March 2022
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A tractor and container for grass cuttings

Carbon reduction scheme to be rolled out to more South Gloucestershire...

Editor - 10th April 2024
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Residents and businesses encouraged to have their say on the future...

jw47 - 5th October 2020
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New ‘School Streets’ in Kingswood and Yate to help clear the...

jw47 - 3rd September 2020
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Gavel and judge

Landlord prosecuted for non-compliance of Improvement Notice

jw47 - 28th January 2020
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Waste dumped next to a tree near a path

Yate woman prosecuted following Chipping Sodbury fly-tip

Editor - 23rd May 2023
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Traffic on a road including a lorry

Supermarket prosecuted for breaching conditions for out of hours deliveries

Editor - 21st March 2025
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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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New homes and primary school for Warmley on old Grange School...

Editor - 22nd October 2021
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Black bin bags dumped on a green space

Lyde Green man fined £368 following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 10th July 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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Thousands of tonnes of carbon reduced and millions saved as LED...

jw47 - 21st December 2021
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New environmentally friendly electric road sweeper introduced in Kingswood as part...

Editor - 17th October 2019
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Councillor Louise Harris with councillor Paul Hulbert from Dodington Parish Council and community volunteers.

Local communities take climate and nature action

Editor - 15th May 2024
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Have your say about how South Gloucestershire grows for our future...

jw47 - 27th November 2020
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Weekly recycling collections to resume in South Gloucestershire on 13 May

jw47 - 29th April 2020
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Councillor Rachael Hunt, Jacqui Harris, Martin Burton and Lucy Rees with the thermal imaging cameras

South Gloucestershire Council and Warm and Well bring thermal camera technology...

Editor - 8th November 2022
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Fly-tipped bin bags

Downend woman fined for fly-tipping bin bags

Editor - 17th October 2025
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A photograph of grass and wildflowers on the roadside

South Gloucestershire Council partnered project set to receive £4.7 million Live...

Editor - 26th January 2023
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Michael Thompson from the Bristol Avon Rivers Trust, Jen Nightingale and Carys Peotto from the Bristol Zoological Society UK conservation team, Rowena Kenny from South Gloucestershire Council’s Climate and Nature Team and Councillor Louise Harris, South Gloucestershire Council’s cabinet member for the Climate and Nature Emergency.

Funding secured to help restore nature along the Severn Estuary

Editor - 4th September 2024
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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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Unlicensed HMO landlord fined over £7,000

Editor - 7th October 2021
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Public invited to hear more about changes to Thornbury High Street

jw47 - 24th August 2021
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Major investment to prevent flooding on South Gloucestershire roads as resilience...

jw47 - 8th March 2021
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a bonfire burning at Rangeworthy Court

Bristol waste collector ordered to pay over £15,000 for setting alight...

Editor - 19th March 2025
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Work to start at railway bridge to support cyclist and pedestrian...

jw47 - 20th August 2021
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West of England leaders visit Bristol Port as vital flood defences...

Editor - 24th March 2022
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Waste operatives loading recycling on to a truck

Council to explore options for new waste and recycling contract from...

Editor - 19th June 2023
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Litter being thrown from a vehicle

South Gloucestershire Council takes action to help reduce littering from vehicles

Editor - 1st November 2023
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Plan for Yate investment unveiled

Editor - 13th December 2021
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Sign on fence saying No tipping or dumping

Mangotsfield man ordered to pay over £2,000 following fly-tip prosecution

Editor - 23rd August 2022
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Landlords prosecuted for renting unsafe property

Editor - 15th December 2016
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Further funding will bring more electric vehicle charging points to South...

jw47 - 9th March 2021
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Inefficient homes in South Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire set to benefit from...

Editor - 17th December 2021
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Yate fly-tipper prosecuted

Editor - 17th December 2021
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Black bin-liners full of waste dumped on a pavement

Filton students handed 12 months conditional discharge and ordered to pay...

Editor - 23rd February 2024
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South Gloucestershire Council Partner Lead Members for Communities and Local Place, Councillor Jayne Stansfield, and Climate and Nature Emergency, Councillor Alex Doyle, were joined by Mayor Dan Norris and local residents to mark the start of project to sow the wildflower meadows. at Jubilee Park.

Heavy horsepower harnessed to sustainably sow wildflower meadows

jw47 - 15th September 2023
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New Local Plan approved for public consultation

Editor - 9th October 2020
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A large blue bag full of empty whipped cream cannisters

Bristol man ordered to pay almost £1,300 following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 30th April 2024
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Gavel and judge

Filton Rogue Trader arrested after failing to show up in court

Editor - 17th September 2025
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Planning agreements signed for Cribbs Patchway New Neighbourhood

Editor - 21st February 2018
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Climate and nature graphic

Council signs up to Climate and Nature Bill

Editor - 4th November 2024
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Mangotsfield woman prosecuted following fly-tip in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 19th February 2019
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Wick man prosecuted for waste offences

Editor - 11th October 2018
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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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South Gloucestershire Council aims for fresh approach to managing waste collections...

Editor - 5th February 2019
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