Waste & Recycling

Bridgend Council's Cabinet will discuss the draft budget for 2023-24 later this week, including a list of proposed cuts and...

Here are some more questions for the Cabinet from this month's full council meeting. Cabinet accepts issue with waste bag...

Last Thursday, the Corporate Overview & Scrutiny Committee called in the recent decision by Cabinet to green-light plans for a...

As some of you may remember, earlier this month Bridgend Council's Cabinet agreed to plans for a two-year "stop-gap" waste...

Bridgend Council's Cabinet is set to approve the tender of a two-year waste and recycling contract (pdf). The current contract...

Bridgend Council's Cabinet is to consider a formal consultation with interested parties over an extension to public space protection and...

Bridgend Council's Cabinet is set to approve a new enforcement policy for environmental offences (pdf). The headline change is an...

Part one of the September full council meeting is available to watch here (link); part two is available here (link)....

The long-term future of the current waste collection contract with Kier is up for discussion at a Bridgend Council scrutiny...

Another month, another meeting of Bridgend Council's planning committee. Part 1 of the webcast is available here, Part 2 is...

(Title Image: Wales Online) Earlier this week, Bridgend Council's planning committee held their monthly meeting, with most of it (watch...

(Title Image: via Google Earth) Last week, all of Wales' 22 local authorities agreed to safely reopen recycling centres/tips from...

(Title Image: Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem) I thought it was worth bringing together some more of the recent coronavirus-related announcements...

(Title Image: Lamiot under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-4.0) Later this week, a Bridgend Council scrutiny committee will be updated on...

(Title Image: Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem) Just when it looked like the recycling situation in Bridgend had reached something approaching...

(Title Image: newstalk.com) As some of you may remember, last year Bridgend Council launched a consultation on proposals to introduce...

(Title Image: via Google Earth) The monthly meeting of Bridgend Council's Planning Committee took place yesterday. The only major development...

(Title Image: newstalk.com) Barnsley-headquartered 3GS have been appointed by Bridgend Council as the contractor to enforce new fines for environmental...

(Title Image: via Google Earth) One of the 2019-20 Bridgend Council budget measures due to be discussed by BCBC's Cabinet...

(Title Image: Wales Online) If you've read the Glamorgan Gazette or Wales Online recently, you won't have failed to notice...

It's one of the most controversial policies of this Bridgend Council term, but members of a Scrutiny Committee will have...

(Pic: inewsguyana.com) On April 25th, the Plaid Cymru group on Bridgend Council tabled a motion calling for BCBC to support...

As promised, I return to the report into the new recycling/waste contract with Kier. The broad conclusion was that the...

  It's one of the most-complained-about policy decisions taken by Bridgend Council in a long time. As the new seven-year...

(Pic: BBC Wales) Bridgend Council's Scrutiny Committee 3* have been warned that street cleaning services could face serious problems in...