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Alternate week councils boost recycling by 30%
Councils urged to cut bin days to boost recycling

Adopting fortnightly bin collections enables councils to increase recycling rates by nearly a third, a Local Government Association (LGA) report has concluded. More than a third of English councils now collect landfill waste and recycling on alternate weeks. The LGA found these now have an average recycling rate of 30 per cent, compared to average… Read more »

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Lyons review into local funding finally published
Lyons review: Make council tax fairer

Council tax is not ‘broken’ but does need to be made fairer, a government-commissioned review concluded today. As part of this reform, the government should consider re-valuing properties to make the rich pay more and the poor less, Sir Michael Lyons concluded as he published his three-year long study into local government finances. It recommends… Read more »