Residents are being urged to sign up for next year’s garden waste collections in plenty of time.
As announced earlier this year, the service will be moving from bags to wheeled bins, in line with industry best practice.
Registration is now open with households who register before 7 January able to receive delivery of their new wheelie bin free of charge.
Also in the registration process is the option to order either a 140 litre or a 240 litre bin.
A family of beavers is set to be released in the Forder Valley as part of an exciting new nature scheme.
The Green Minds project, which launches on Monday, seeks to re-wild urban parks, gardens and verges, introduce a new system of working with partners and crucially, encourage more people from all walks to life, to enjoy the health benefits that our green spaces provide.
We’re encouraging Plymouth residents to go car free this Thursday.
National Clean Air Day falls on Thursday 8 October and we want people to leave their car at home to help improve air quality and work towards Plymouth’s target to become carbon neutral by 2030.
We’re working on plans to switch our garden waste collection service from bags to wheelie bins for the 2021 season.
There’s lots of preparation work to do as this is a big change for approximately 38,000 people who use the service
Twelve more litter louts have been fined after hearings at Plymouth Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
The court heard how the offenders were all given fixed penalty notices by the Council’s environmental enforcement officers, who witnessed them dropping litter on the city’s streets.
Plymouth’s Green Minds project is giving away grants to businesses who invest in nature.
The Green Minds project, which will help to re-wild urban areas and encourage people from across the city to enjoy the health benefits from blue and green space, launches this year thanks to €4million funding grant from the European Regional Development Fund under their Urban Innovation Actions Programme.
The Council is joining forces with partners across the city to mark World Oceans Day 2020.
While usually World Oceans Day would be marked by hundreds of people physically attending events by the waterside and beyond, this year will be a bit different because of the coronavirus pandemic.
But that doesn’t mean that this year there will be less – far from it. No, this year all of the events will be either online or resources used in schools or for home schooling, so that the excitement and intrigue of the ocean is still available to everyone.
Over 2,800 extra trees are set to be planted in Plymouth.
It comes after the Council were named as successful bidders for the first round of the Forestry Commission’s Urban Tree Challenge funding.