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Popular garden waste scheme restarts

Plymouth’s popular garden waste collection is starting up again from 30 March.

This year the scheme will be extended by a month until the end of November so that people can sweep up autumn leaves and put their garden to bed for the winter.

The collection operates every fortnight – the same week that people’s recycling is collected.

The service starts just ahead of the...

International Compost Awareness Week 2013 starts Monday 6 May

The twelfth annual International Compost Awareness Week will be celebrated from Monday 6 to Sunday 12 May 2013.

In Devon, acclaimed gardening professional and BBC Gardeners' World regular, Toby Buckland is supporting the Don't let Devon go to waste's campaign of getting people composting.

This is an opportunity to get involved and help Devon to recycle or compost 60% of its...