Reported to be the first of its kind, a new scientific study published on the psychiatry section of the JAMA Network website suggests that young people living in high-pollution areas may be at an increased risk of having a psychotic episode.

It may come as no surprise that people who live in densely populated areas such as London already have a higher chance of having a psychotic experience. Although one specific factor can’t be pinpointed as the cause in young people, such things such as smoking, drinking alcohol and using drugs are thought to increase the chances of psychosis. There are also other environmental factors to take into account such as living in a deprived area, family income, exposure to crime and perhaps even noise pollution. Read more

Depending on where you live, you may have weekly or fortnightly rubbish collections by your local authority. You may get your food waste collected or you may not. Quite frankly, it’s a postcode lottery as to what your council will collect, and how often they’ll do it…. and also whether they charge you for it (as some councils already do for compostable garden waste). Read more

Back in March of 2018, we wrote about the Government’s announcement that it intended to introduce a Deposit Return Scheme for glass bottles, plastic bottles and tin cans. We’re now nearly a year down the road and there’s still precious little information available concerning any updates on this promising idea. Read more

With only a few days to go until many of us finish work and spend some much needed time with friends and family, we’d like to make our customers aware of our opening/closing times for Christmas and New Year.

Our normal opening hours apply except for the following:

We will be closed every day from 2pm on Friday 21st December 2018 until 8am on Wednesday 2nd January 2019.

If you haven’t done all of your Xmas shopping yet, we hope you’re prepared to battle the usual throng of shoppers on London’s busy high streets but, if you’re still hard at work, we’ll be on hand right up until the 21st to clear away all your unwanted rubbish, either by skip or with our large capacity tipper trucks.

If you’re having a get together at home and the relatives are staying over, you may need to have a clearout beforehand to make some extra room. If that’s the case, get in touch quick to find out if we can still squeeze you in!

We’d also like to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year and hope you all have a great time.

See you all in 2019!