Recycling

A pile of dead batteries. Photo: Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images

Recycling expert explains what to do with your dead batteries

Households can make £570 selling the most popular bulky items.

Sunderland tops league for bulky waste collections

Fulwell Junior School's racing team with the electric car they have built.

Children go green by building electric car with an important message

An example of some of the fires started by household batteries

Shocking video shows laptop burst into flames as battery catches fire

Sunderland can to more to save waste.

Sunderland named as 'most wasteful' place outside London

Sally Anderson with some waste pieces of plastic and a basket she made from the recycled material.

Artist launches recycling initiative to tackle ocean plastics

Stills from the cine film showing Durham in 1951.

Durham in the 1950s: Cine footage shows the city 70 years ago

It can be trickier than it looks.

What you can and can't recycle - expert dispels myths around recycling

Sunderland bin collection times over Easter weekend confirmed

Martin Lewis is urging all mobile phone users to check their contracts (Photo: ITV)

Martin Lewis Money Show taken off air - return date confirmed

Thompson Waste which is a sponsor of the Sunderland Echo Business Excellence Awards.

Champions of the green ethos

We take a look at Sunderland City Council's advice on what you can and can't put in your recycling bin.

The items you can and can't put in your blue bin in Sunderland

Recycling is not just for Christmas.

RICHARD ORD: What does Facebook think of the Summer so far? Rubbish!

Almost three quarters of parents have been told off by their children for not be...

Revealed: The true cost of our household appliances

Stamps needed for Guide Dogs for the Blind

I am appealing for used postage stamps which help me raise funds which I then donate to the Guide Dogs for the Blind.

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The overflowing bins pictured by Geoff Walsh in the car park at Seaburn.

Calls for clear-up after overflowing recycling bins cause eyesore on Sunderland ...

The rubbish at Cleadon Hills

Call for cameras and warden patrols to stop fly-tipping at Cleadon Hills

Plea for your used stamps