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This weeks Recycling Roundup features stories including a recycling company in Kent has renewed its commitment to support a charity's green travel and road safety work, scientists say you can help save endangered gorillas by recycling old mobile phones, and finally Peterborough city council have had to apologise for offending residents with stickers on their wheelie bins.  

This weeks Recycling Roundup includes stories about Hartlepools new recycling facility is set to create 50 new jobs, a facility in North Finchley can no longer accept any plastics due to cutbacks and finally a waste and recycling company in London has been fined and a director jailed after the death of a worker.

This weeks Recycling Roundup features stories including East Suffolk county council are no longer accepting plastic bags and plastic food film as part of their collection, Coventry council have taken over the brown bin recycling across Nuneaton and Bedworth, and finally 6 Somerset councils are looking for new recycling contractors in preparation for its Recycle More progamme. 

This weeks Recycling Roundup includes stories about environment bosses in Leeds have launched a campaign to get more people to recycle in the city centre, students in Cheltenham are becoming more and more angry that they have not had their recycling collected for 5 weeks, and finally, Tesco are preparing to trial reverse vending machines in some of their stores.  

This weeks Recycling Roundup includes stories of a keen 5 year old recycling campaigner is the new star of a Wigan council recycling campaign, the plastics charity Recoup the consfusion behind plastics packaging is down the the budget cuts are local authorities, and finally the recycling minister has said that household recycling rates are collapsing.

This weeks Recycling Roundup features stories including a new scheme in Australia to encourage people to recycle properly, recycling centres in Gloucestershire are set to reduce their opening hours and will close an extra day during winter to save money, and finally letters from Gwent Council advising residents of changes to collections have been found dumped on a hill.

This weeks Recycling Roundup features stories include a new fully operational recycling plant which has now opened in WestLothian, recycling collections have been affected in North Somerset due to refuse crew shortages, and finally Fife Council's attempt to try and increase charges at a recycling centre could lead to an increase of businesses fly-tipping.

This weeks Recycling Roundup includes stories about Wigan's recycling rates increasing, a bomb squad being called to a recycling centre in Manchester and finally a three weekly rubbish collection may have been hit with bad press but in Rochdale the recycling rates had increased.

This weeks Recycling Roundup include official figures provided by Defra say that the UK has exceeded its packaging recycling target, a village in South Wales have taking their concerns about the unbearable smell from the quarry and recycling plant to a public meeting, and finally 2 peopl have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a recycling station in Norwich.  

This weeks Recycling roundup features stories including discarded laughing gas canisters being littered in areas despite the fact they can be recycled for money, Wirrall council have told residents they have no plans to introduce a food recycling scheme, and finally RECOUP organised collections of trays, cups and PET drinks bottles for recycling.