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 […]

When my family of four first got our black wheelie bin, we were pretty much filling it up every two weeks. In the last month it’s been no more than three-quarters full by the time it’s collected, which works out fine. Since a significant number of people are having problems fitting their rubbish into their […]

Thanks to fellow Gatley governor Jamie – between us we cleared a good deal of the rubbish in the passageway behind the Co-op (from Oakwood Avenue to Elm Road) and split it between our various wheelie bins.  It’s not perfect, but a lot better. There’s a good deal of litter still on the Co-op property […]

Pam and I are working to tackle a problem with rubbish on the private stretch of road behind the Co-op at the corner of Church Road and Oakwood Avenue. Actually, there have been several different problems. First,  several cases of bin bags building up – we’ve had them removed on more than one occasion.  It’s […]

From Stockport Council: Residents will have the chance to win £500 in Recycle For Greater Manchester’s latest campaign. Residents should look out for comic genius Dave Spikey coming through their door as he spearheads Greater Manchester’s recycling campaign to encourage residents to recycle the right items. Residents will receive an information pack through their door […]

In the past, Stockport has collected all the household refuse people want to throw out.  The problem with that approach has been people who could recycle but choose not to – the rest of us pay more tax to fund them (because it’s far more expensive to throw rubbish into landfill than to recycle). The […]

Bin collections will continue in the snowy weather. Where it’s not possible to safely collect a bin, it will be collected at the next scheduled collection along with any excess waste.  That means if your bin isn’t collected on its normal day, put it out next time round and leave anything extra in bags by […]

I’m back from a litter pick with 1st Gatley Cubs. We aimed to clean up the path running from Foxland Road to Hawthorn Road in Gatley.  It gets more litter than most because it’s a main route for many of the kids at Kingsway to go too and from school, and because it’s a path, […]

Stockport Council have said that, for the next week only (i.e. until the first round of black bin collections are completed), additional bags of rubbish will be collected alongside black wheelie bins. If you have too much non-recyclable rubbish to fit in your black bin, fill the bin up (making sure the lid can close) […]