Published on Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 2:50 pm
The Lancashire Waste Partnership is updating its strategy for managing waste across Lancashire from 2026-2036 and has launched a new survey to find out your views.
Filed under: bins | Consultation | environment | Lancashire | partnership | survey | waste
Published on Tuesday 10 March 2026 at 11:37 am
The council is backing a national call for sentencing guidelines for fly-tipping to be urgently reviewed, after new figures show that court fines for the offence are often lower than the penalties councils can issue directly.
Filed under: Blackburn | council | Councillor Jim Smith | Darwen | environment | fixed penalty notice | fly tipping | Flytipping | FPN | waste
Published on Monday 2 February 2026 at 9:47 am
People who use the borough’s household waste and recycling centres are invited to share their views and experiences to help shape a proposed new service designed to serve all of Blackburn with Darwen.
Filed under: Blackburn | Councillor Jim Smith | councillor phil riley | Darwen | Goose House Lane | Household Waste and Recycling Centre | HWRC | Leader | Recycling | waste
Published on Tuesday 19 August 2025 at 10:59 am
The council’s environmental crime team have secured another nine waste prosecutions for eight people, totalling almost £5,000.
Filed under: Councillor Jim Smith | environment | environmental crime | fly tipping | litter | prosecution | Recycling | waste
Published on Friday 17 January 2025 at 3:44 pm
Following the distribution of the festive guide to bin collections and recycling, a winner has been announced for the £500 cash prize.
Filed under: Blackburn | BwD Recycle | CaSH | Coucillor Jim Smith | Darwen | recycle | Recycle BwD | Recycling | Suez | waste | winner
Published on Wednesday 17 July 2024 at 3:33 pm
Today, 17 July, delegates from the Saudi Arabian government’s waste management centre visited Blackburn with Darwen council’s refuse and recycling team.
Published on Thursday 30 May 2024 at 5:54 pm
Blackburn with Darwen borough council’s environmental crime team have secured 22 waste prosecutions recently, totalling £14,584.
Filed under: environment | environmental crime | Fine | fly tipping | Issue | litter | Prosecuted | prosecution | waste
Published on Tuesday 19 March 2024 at 2:47 pm
In Blackburn with Darwen food waste continues to account for over 40% of the contents of the burgundy bin, with half of it still being edible or in date.
Filed under: Food | food waste | waste | waste collection
Published on Monday 18 March 2024 at 2:24 pm
The refuse team found themselves in a tricky situation during what was planned to be a regular trade waste collection round in Duttons Way, Blackburn on Friday, 8th March.
Filed under: Blackburn | commercial waste | Duttons Way | refuse | waste | waste collection
Published on Thursday 22 June 2023 at 10:02 am
Blackburn with Darwen Environment Services Team joined forces with the Environment Agency and Lancashire Police to carry out inspections at waste permitted sites across the borough.
Filed under: enforcement | environmental crime | waste
Published on Wednesday 6 October 2021 at 9:50 am
Three residents and a landlord in Blackburn with Darwen have been fined and prosecuted after failing to dispose of their waste properly.
Filed under: environment | fly tipping | prosecutions | waste
Published on Tuesday 21 September 2021 at 10:50 am
Recycle Your Electricals is launching ‘HypnoCat’, a pink fluffy cat on a mission to hypnotise Blackburn with Darwen residents into recycling their small old electricals.
Filed under: electrical | electricals | recycle | Recycling | waste
Published on Tuesday 10 August 2021 at 12:15 pm
Two more residents in Blackburn with Darwen have been prosecuted for waste offences.
Martin Gerald McDonagh, 51, of Queen Victoria Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to failing to ensure his household waste was transferred to an authorised person.
Filed under: environment | fly tipping | prosecution | waste
Published on Wednesday 4 August 2021 at 9:57 am
Two more residents in Blackburn with Darwen have received court fines for failing to dispose of their waste properly.
Filed under: environment | fly tipping | prosecutions | waste
Published on Wednesday 28 July 2021 at 10:41 am
Seventeen residents in Blackburn with Darwen have been found guilty of waste offences and fined a total of £12,558.
Filed under: environment | prosecution | rubbish | waste
Published on Wednesday 14 July 2021 at 1:48 pm
A resident and a landlord have been issued with large fines for waste offences in Blackburn.
Filed under: fly tipping | prosecution | waste
Published on Wednesday 7 July 2021 at 2:17 pm
Residents in Blackburn with Darwen should keep an eye out for their new recycling and bin collection guides which will be posted through doors over the coming weeks.
Filed under: bins | environment | Recycling | waste
Published on Monday 17 May 2021 at 10:51 am
Mr Mohammed Saleem, 41, of Dundee Drive, Blackburn has been fined £712.50 for dumping rubbish from his car.
Filed under: environment. prosecution | fly tipping | litter | waste
Published on Tuesday 16 March 2021 at 12:29 pm
Blackburn with Darwen Council is asking residents for their thoughts on rubbish and recycling.
Residents are being asked to share their views in a quick, online survey.
Published on Wednesday 10 February 2021 at 1:10 pm
A landlord has been fined after waste accumulated in the rear yard of a tenanted property on Infirmary Street in Blackburn.
Filed under: environment | prosecution | waste
Published on Wednesday 16 September 2020 at 3:17 pm
Blackburn with Darwen has always been bursting with community spirit.
And we’ve seen that shine through brighter than ever since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Filed under: community | environment | fly tipping | litter | Recycling | waste
Published on Friday 16 August 2019 at 1:50 pm
Plans for a state-of-the-art energy recovery centre in Darwen have been given the green light by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council.
Filed under: Blackburn and Darwen | Darwen | waste
Published on Thursday 4 July 2019 at 3:50 pm
Residents and landlords who caused a ‘stink’ by leaving rubbish to pile up outside their properties in Blackburn with Darwen have been ordered to pay more than £2,000 in court fines and charges.
Filed under: Cllr Jim Smith | environment | waste
Published on Tuesday 21 May 2019 at 12:29 pm
There’s a revolution in Blackburn with Darwen – a Red Bag Revolution!
Have you ever noticed a stack of red bags at the side of the road?
Filed under: Cllr Mohammed Khan | Red Bag Revolution | waste
Published on Thursday 18 April 2019 at 12:50 pm
How many times have you thrown ‘perfectly good’ food in the bin?
That chicken you just didn’t get around to cooking, the veg that has clearly seen better days and there’s always the odd banana that just didn’t make it into a lunchbox.
Filed under: waste
Published on Friday 5 January 2018 at 4:01 pm
A Director of a former Blackburn waste plastics recycling business has been handed an eight-month suspended prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete 120 hours of unpaid work.
Filed under: fire | Harry Catherall | waste
Published on Friday 7 February 2014 at 6:34 pm
A man and woman have been ordered to pay a total of £1441.30 for failing to clear a build-up of household rubbish.
Filed under: bins | fly tipping | litter | prosecution | rubbish | waste
