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More than 4,000 tonnes of food scraps were collected in Swindon in the last year [Swindon Borough Council] Residents have helped their local council save more than £500,000 after putting out ...
A new £1m machine will help boost Swindon's recycling rate and help it become greener, a councillor has said. A baler, which turns dry waste materials such as plastic and metals into bales, is ...
The move in Swindon is part of a wider effort to combat low recycling rates and avoid a backlog of roughly 40,000 collections which caused numerous problems in 2023.
Swindon (/ ˈ s w ɪ n d ən / ⓘ) is a town in Wiltshire, England.At the time of the 2021 Census the population of the built-up area was 183,638, making it the largest settlement in the county. [1]
The SN postcode area, also known as the Swindon postcode area, [2] is a group of eighteen postcode districts in England, within ten post towns.These cover north Wiltshire (including Swindon, Chippenham, Calne, Corsham, Devizes, Malmesbury, Marlborough, Melksham and Pewsey), plus a small part of south-west Oxfordshire (including Faringdon) and a very small part of Gloucestershire.
Swindon Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Swindon in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. It was founded in 1974 as Thamesdown Borough Council , and was a lower-tier district council until 1997.
In the period 1951–1981, Swindon's population grew by 70 percent, [3] "some 58 per cent higher than the national average over the same period". [1] In the 1980s, Swindon became the fastest growing town in Europe. [1] Murray John died in 1974 and is honoured in the name of the David Murray John Tower in the centre of Swindon.
In Swindon, Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service said Maxwell Street and Lorne Street had been closed until further notice due to an unsafe building. "Please avoid the area," it added.