The residents of Stockport Borough have massively increased the amount we all recycle over the last 18 months. We now recycle over 60% of our household waste, making us number one in the country among metropolitan boroughs and in the top three or four of all boroughs. Our recycling success has brought in lots of [...]

Since the introduction of the extra wheelie bins about 15 months ago, Stockport residents have saved £5.2 million, with more to come. That’s big money and, tough as the Council cuts are, they would be a lot worse if our recycling was only as good as Manchester or Tameside. How do we get those numbers? [...]

Because of the strikes on 30th November, a lot of the bins due for collection in the Cheadle area weren’t collected. The following press release has today been published on the Council’s public web-site: Due to the strike action there was disruption to the scheduled waste and recycling collection service on Wednesday 30th November. Residents [...]

Look out for your new recycling calendar The Council will be delivering new waste and recycling collection calendars to homes in the borough from Friday, 18 November. The new calendars will include details about collection days for the next two years and a handy guide on which things should go in which bin. Of course, [...]

There is a public sector strike planned for 30th November. At the moment it’s not entirely clear how many people will be involved, but it could well lead to a large section of Stockport Council, along with the public sector across the rest of the country, being out of action for the day. November 30th [...]

Stockport residents are already doing much better than the rest of Greater Manchester on recycling – and saving millions of pounds in the process. But there are areas we can do better still – making sure we properly compost food and recycle juice cartons and aluminium foil. Although we in Stockport composted 13,400 tonnes of [...]

In case you thought fly-tipping was easy to get away with, be aware that local residents are quick to report it and the Council will always investigate it, and take action where possible. Here’s some fly-tipping on Gatley Hill car park – looks like it’s from a decorating business or something like that. It was [...]

New figures show just how far ahead the people of Stockport are in recycling – and thanks to your efforts, we’re saving millions of pounds. Each Stockport household threw away 77kg of rubbish (the stuff that can’t be recycled and ends up in landfill) between January and March this year. We pay for all the [...]

Stockport shares our waste and recycling disposal with the nine other Greater Manchester authorities, and the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority is the body that runs it all. This website shows where all our recycling goes (and, contrary to occasional odd stories in the media, none of it gets shipped to the Far East!).

Whatever your views on Stockport’s new bins, the story in the Stockport Express this week criticising the Council for spending £7.5 million on new bins is a very silly one. The spend of £7.5 million is since 2003 – i.e. over a period of eight years. The Council – and so taxpayers – are currently [...]