The authority is warning people not to put batteries, gas canisters, vapes or other such items in their general waste ...

Residents have been warned not to put hot ashes or warm disposable barbecues in their black or green bins after a serious bin ...

Lincolnshire Police say the 65-year-old woman died at the scene.

Residents are being urged to dispose of batteries safely after a fire broke out in a bin lorry. Waste collection crews spotted the blaze while carrying out collections on Crooked Well and Llewellin ...

A grandmother who had beaten pancreatic cancer was decapitated by a bin lorry as horrified schoolchildren looked on. Maria Rubalcava de Ruesga, 69, was crossing West Bishop Street in Santa Ana, ...

A woman has died after a crash involving a bin lorry on Wednesday (July 15). Emergency services were called to Cross Road in ...

The incident, which could have been "serious," may have been caused by a battery, gas canister, or disposable vape.

Workers at Bristol Waste have been praised for their quick actions after a man, who was inside a bin, was suddenly thrown into a refuse lorry with the machinery on ...

Cardiff Council said they believed a bike battery which had been incorrectly disposed of had caused the blaze ...

Emergency services have rushed to a property in the West Midlands after a bin lorry crashed through the front of a house. Police, fire and ambulance crews are at the scene of the smash after the ...

A fire started in a bin lorry after someone put the "wrong thing" in their recycling bin.