Residents living in flats with communal bins should take batteries to a recycling centre or local collection point. Recent lorry fires have broken out in Great Shelford, the centre of Cambridge ...

It is urging residents to dispose of batteries at designated waste recycling centres ... back of the vehicle while it was loading a bin. The lorry was taken back to the depot, where it was ...

South Kesteven District Council is introducing a battery recycling scheme after bin lorry fires A kerbside battery recycling scheme, designed to reduce the risk of bin fires, will launch in South ...

A fire in a recycling lorry has sparked warnings about the dangers ... residents not to put any batteries in their household bins.

Footage from the bin lorry shows the moment an empty gas bottle ... gas canisters and bottles do not belong in household waste or recycling bins. "These items can cause fires, explosions, serious ...

Things haven’t always been smooth since Biffa started working for the council in 2006. Biffa was involved in a pay dispute ...

An update has been issued for everyone living in Wallasey and Liscard after a bin lorry caught fire ... They should be ...

“Where they do this and the vapes and batteries inadvertently end up in the bin lorry, they can get crushed ... Cllr Mark Wilkes with battery and vape recycling tubes (Image: DCC) “There ...

being compressed by the lorry’s crusher. Newham Council in east London said in another recent incident an empty gas bottle, which had been disposed of in a household waste bin, ignited in a ...

Smoke was seen rising from the stationary lorry, as firefighters were seen ... revealed that over 700 fires were started in bin lorries and recycling centres this year by dumped electricals.