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Brown bins will be collected weekly in two stages starting from February for homes in the East Riding. East Riding of Yorkshire Council is introducing the shift to meet a new Government directive that ...

Since the start of the new year, 383 locales and 12 First Nations communities in Ontario have fully transitioned to the new ...

December 2025 marked 30 years since the City of Chicago introduced its first citywide recycling program. It was scrapped in ...

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Residents in the largest city in the Rio Grande Valley will notice some new charges on their monthly utility bills in the new year. That’s because Brownsville is implementing a new, mandatory curbside ...

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