Report: Councils should incentivise people to encourage recycling

Jessica Shankleman
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Greenredeem warns of worrying number of people who simply can not be bothered to recycle their waste

Local authorities are being urged to do more to incentivise people to recycle, after a new survey found many people do not recycle because of a lack of access to bins or because they simply can not be...

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