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A Dorset Council bin collection crew saw smoke coming from the back of the truck on Summerhill Road in Lyme Regis earlier. ... or a clear sealable plastic bag and left on top of recycling bins for ...
In January 2025, following a vote by Wiltshire Council, the leaders of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire councils said they had written to the UK government to show support for devolution of powers to the proposed combined authority. This was despite reservations among Wiltshire councillors who felt that a mayor was "not right for a large rural area".
Recycling collection site in Portsmouth, Hampshire In 2015, 43.5% of the United Kingdom's municipal waste was recycled, composted or broken down by anaerobic digestion . [ 1 ] The majority of recycling undertaken in the United Kingdom is done by statutory authorities, although commercial and industrial waste is chiefly processed by private ...
Later in 2015 Viridor took over the collection side of Dorset based waste company Commercial Recycling. Today the business is valued at around £4 billion, [ 6 ] with recent acquisitions and growth focused on expanding the company's recycling and energy from waste capacity.
The 2025 United Kingdom local elections will be held on 1 May 2025. [2] All seats on 14 county councils in England and eight unitary authorities in England will be up for election. They are expected to be the first local elections following the 2024 general election .
The council was created on 1 April 2019, when Dorset County Council and five of its six district councils merged to form a unitary authority. A "shadow authority" was created in 2018 to oversee the transition, comprising all the existing district and county councillors representing the area of the new authority. [1]
Dorset (/ ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t / DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire / ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t. ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / DOR-sit-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England.It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south-east, the English Channel to the south, and Devon to the west.
Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England. It is a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The non-metropolitan county is smaller than the ceremonial county of Dorset, which also includes Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The council ...