Leading waste firm Biffa reveals it has found 840,000 discarded vapes in the space of just four months - as well as the ...

The blaze nearly envelopes the lorry in north Brixton earlier this week. Footage shows the vehicle picking up rubbish from a side-street in south London. Black smoke billows out of the compactor as it ...

A fire crew emptied the waste into a layby to prevent the fire from spreading in the lorry [South Kesteven District Council] Householders have been warned not to put batteries in their wheelie bins ...

Residents are being reminded to dispose of lithium-ion batteries properly after a blaze in a bin lorry. Devon and Somerset Fire Service crews were called to Millwey Rise Industrial Estate in Axminster ...

Three Glasgow bin lorries have caught fire over the last two weeks due to exploding "vape batteries". On September 14, a driver was forced to dump a load of rubbish in the middle of West Princes ...

Another warning has been issued by the London Fire Brigade (LFB) about the dangers of throwing out batteries in bins, specifically lithium-ion ones, after a bin lorry fire in south London.

A council is still sometimes having to mix separated recycling together in the back of a bin lorry. Rahim Mustafa, from Fairwater in Cardiff, noticed rubbish that had been separated into different ...

An east London council on Friday issued an urgent warning after a bin lorry explosion resulted in a refuse worker being rushed to hospital. Newham town hall has told residents that some rubbish items ...

Gardeners are being warned to double-check what they put in their garden waste bins as councils across the UK have been ...