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Landowners are being urged by the Environment Agency to be mindful of their responsibilities regarding illegal waste storage after 100,000 tyres and 3,000 cubic metres of plastic bales were removed from sites.

New appointments have been made at Novelis, VEKA Recycling, Viridor and Casepak.

The Great British Beach Clean, the Marine Conservation Society’s annual clean-up and analysis of coastal litter, takes place 18-21 September and is seeking volunteers.

England's recycling rate hit 44.8 per cent in the calendar year 2014, up by just 0.6 per cent on the year before, provisional statistics from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs show.

The Government of Ireland has allocated €690,000 through the 2015 Anti-Litter & Anti-Graffiti Awareness Grant Scheme to help local authorities raise awareness of environmental pollution.

The introduction of a three-weekly residual waste kerbside collection system in Bury has seen the recycling rate jump by eight per cent in just two months, the council says.