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Trash collectors will pick up old Christmas trees over the next two weeks. A spokesman for the public ministry said the western parishes, west of Tee Street, Devonshire, would have discarded trees collected on January 15. Christmas trees in areas eas...

A large pile of trash dumped outside the Tynes Bay Waste-to-Energy facility over the holiday weekend has angered members of the public. The waste was removed from the area by yesterday morning, but on social media several people highlighted the pile ...

Trash collection schedules will be changed next week because of the Christmas holidays. Trash normally collected on Monday will be picked up on Wednesday, and Tuesday’s waste will be collected on Thursday. Wednesday’s waste will be collected on Decem...

Plans to ban single use plastics in Bermuda were highlighted by the home affairs minister at an international forum. Walter Roban told the virtual Financial Times Global Boardroom event that the island was leading the way on climate change. Mr Roban...

A bust-up over the state of the Tynes Bay incinerator heated up yesterday as the Government was accused of failure to act on promises of investment in the plant that dated back decades. A major announcement by Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the publ...

The use of a compost centre as an emergency landfill site could be eased after emergency repairs were completed at the Tynes Bay incinerator. Wayne Furbert, the Acting Minister of Public Works, said that the incinerator had started to work through a ...

A “major capital development” is needed to refurbish the ageing Tynes Bay incinerator, the acting public works minister said this week. Wayne Furbert warned: “The choice is simple – we can either invest $150 million to make significant upgrades to th...

Bermuda College students interested in the trades and engineering have visited a hospital sewage treatment plant for an educational tour. Bermuda Hospitals Board welcomed the students to the plant at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute in Devonshire...

An environmental charity has appealed for volunteers to hit the beach next month as part of an island-wide clean up. The Keep Bermuda Beautiful Coastal Clean Up, sponsored by financial services firm EY, will tackle trash at more than 40 sites around ...

Staff shortages are expected to hit garbage collection over the next few weeks, the public works ministry warned last night. A spokeswoman said residential waste collection would continue but it was “impossible to guarantee service every day under th...

Plans to introduce fees for single-use plastics in the run-up to an outright ban could be scrapped, a policy paper has warned. The paper said that the Government had earlier pledged to introduce a charge for single-use plastics but the 2020 deadline ...

Residential trash collection is being offered by a local service for just $9 a week in a move aimed at supplementing the government’s once a week free collection. Kenten Trott said the service is being offered in the eastern parishes – Hamilton Pari...