Your environment

• Council fears it could lose thousands of trees to ash dieback

  20 July 2022

  3 minute read

  THOUSANDS of ash trees may have to be felled in Leicester over the next 10 years as a result of a disease that has killed millions of trees across Europe.

• City bin collections to start an hour earlier to help beat the heat

  15 July 2022

  1 minute read

  WITH soaring temperatures predicted in the coming days, Leicester City Council is asking people to put their recycling, waste and garden waste earlier than normal next week.

• Annual review for city’s tree strategy

  29 June 2022

  3 minute read

  A MAJOR plan that guides the management of Leicester’s ‘urban forest’ has been formally reviewed to reflect the progress that’s been made during 2021/22.

• Local schools compete for the ‘eco factor’

  29 June 2022

  2 minute read

  EIGHT local primary schools have taken part in a competition to find the ‘eco factor’ in a celebration event held at City Hall in Leicester.

• City schools celebrate Clean Air Day

  16 June 2022

  3 minute read

  SCHOOLS in Leicester have been celebrating Clean Air Day by making the most of traffic-free local streets.

• Council begins work on £8m home insulation scheme

  13 June 2022

  2 minute read

  HUNDREDS of council houses and other affordable homes in Leicester are set to benefit from a rolling programme of solid wall insulation.

• No changes to waste collections in city over Jubilee bank holiday

  26 May 2022

  1 minute read

  ALL recycling and waste collections in Leicester will take place on the normal collection days over the forthcoming special bank holiday to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

• £800,000 improvement programme for city’s estates

  13 May 2022

  2 minute read

  NEW car parking spaces, cutting back shrubs and tidying up overgrown green spaces are among the improvements that have been made to a city estate after residents told the council what they’d like to see done.

• Reuse Shop recycles unwanted goods into cash for charity

  11 May 2022

  2 minute read

  A CHARITY shop at a Leicester recycling centre has raised thousands of pounds to support local older people since opening to the public in January. 

• Council calls on residents and businesses to help tackle Willow Brook litter issue

  6 May 2022

  3 minute read

  BUSINESSES and residents in parts of north-east Leicester are to be asked for their help in tackling an on-going litter problem in a nearby waterway.

• Leicester marks Earth Day with giant globe made from waste

  20 April 2022

  2 minute read

  A GIANT globe made entirely from waste that’s been collected from Leicester’s parks and waterways will remind people to think about the environment this week.

• Nine new Tiny Forests in Leicester will help celebrate the Commonwealth Games

  20 April 2022

  4 minute read

  HUNDREDS of local schoolchildren have helped to plant thousands of trees and create Tiny Forests at nine Leicester schools to celebrate the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.