Rubbish

The mess left by travellers at Park Lane recreation ground, Fareham. Photo: Cllr Simon Martin

Leader slams ‘trail of destruction’ after travellers pitch up

Travellers in Anchorage Park

Action to be taken as travellers set up camp in Anchorage Park

Action is underway to remove two groups of travellers in Hermitage Lea, Leigh Park and Scratchface Lane, Bedhampton.

Action underway to remove two groups of travellers in the Havant area

Rubbish at Barton Field, Leigh Park

Travellers leave field near football ground but bags of rubbish remain

Rubbish left behind by travellers at Berewood Estate, Waterlooville.

Travellers leave rubbish bags and a bicycle behind in Waterlooville

Indoor food waste caddy shown with a liner in place — perfect for collecting kitchen scraps cleanly and conveniently before transferring to the outdoor bin.

Food waste collections to be extended across more of Havant borough

Playing fields off Allaway Avenue in Paulsgrove, Portsmouth

Clear-up operation begins as travellers leave Paulsgrove site

Deborah Cooper outside her home with her recycle bin in Hayling Island on 8th June 2026

Woman faces not having her overflowing bin collected for six weeks

Hayling Island Household Waste Recycling Centre

Latest on fees for using tips as council hikes fees for these people

A food waste caddy

Two areas to miss key deadline in massive bin collection shake-up

'Eyesore' of rubbish bags that blighted busy street now moved

Steve Tubbs who lives in a flat on North Cross Street, Gosport, now needs to store rubbish in his flat as the external communal bins have been removed

Furious residents hit out at having to store smelly rubbish in homes

Cllr Ian Bastable with new food waste collection vehicles and caddies to be delivered to Fareham Borough Council residents

Fareham gets 100,000 new bins ahead of sweeping changes to collections

File photo of a rubbish collection lorry used in Gosport.

More details about major bins overhaul as council misses key deadline

Cigarette butts to be Britains 'most pervasive' litter problem

A common pub game could help eliminate UK's biggest litter problem

Hampshire County Council is getting ready to be able to process food waste collections

Food waste revolution coming as changes to rubbish collections near
The green light has been given for the introduction of household food waste collections, which would see waste processed at two specialist facilities.
Natalia Forero

The future delivery of Havant Borough Council’s environmental services was decided at a council cabinet meeting on June 4, with contractor Norse being axed in favour of an in-house model.

Major shake-up of bin collections and street cleaning clears hurdle

The future delivery of Havant Borough Council’s environmental services, including bin collections, has been reviewed

Major changes to bin collections labelled the most important decision

The site at 189 Forton Road, Gosport, with billboards on it that are now removed

Developers keep trying to build flats but bins and parking thwart them

Fly-tipped rubbish and waste is seen beside a road in Colnbrook, near Heathrow, west of London on May 11 2020.

Watch: How do we dump Britain’s fly-tipping epidemic?

Rubbish piled up on Beach Road in Sparkhill Birmingham

Watch: Rubbish piles up in streets as bin strike enters third week

Dramatic pictures posted on Facebook posted by Watery Lane resident Elaine Hutchings show the scale of the fly tipping.

'Beyond belief': Outrage over 50ft long fly-tipped waste pile

There are fears about historic landfills around Portchester

Fears over historic landfill sites opening up and rubbish spilling out

Serife Mehmet, 30, said she has often wished to move away from the area due to the extent of the rubbish

Revolting rubbish and nightmare potholes are making my car filthy

The huge mountain of rubbish has built up at a property in Dalkeith Street

Disgusting mountain of rubbish attracting rats and plaguing street

Before-and-after pictures show how a house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift dump has finally been cleared of rubbish after more than a year.

Makeshift tip FINALLY cleared as nightmare neighbour evicted

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Nightmare tenant with rubbish dump in front garden gets EVICTED
Neighbours are celebrating after a nightmare tenant who turned his home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway GETS EVICTED.
Lucinda Herbert

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Next door has a rubbish dump in the garden...it's making our kids sick

Video grab from heartbreaking footage showing 'waterfalls' of 3,000 bits of rubbish including drinks cans and Santa hats left by people on Mount Snowdon.

'Waterfall' of rubbish cascades down Mt Snowdon in heartbreaking video

Bilk's Sol Abraham

Boardmasters 2024: Bilk’s Sol Abrahams reflects on Cornish experience

Clean Up Britain founder John Read wants more to be done about motorway litter

Rubbish dumped on motorway...what do we pay our council tax for?

Nino Gugliemi, 82, who has run a female hair salon on Wilmslow Road in Manchester for 60 years backs onto the alley ways of where students live and have dumped rubbish after moving out for the summer.

Watch: Fly-tipping students have turned street into a 'dumping ground'

Gas cannister exploded after being incorrectly thrown out with household rubbish

Watch: Gas cannister explodes and is sent flying at binman

Residents say the village of Featherstone is the 'grimmest' place in the UK and is surrounded by three prisons.

'We live in UK's grimmest village... it's worse than prison'

The RSPCA has received almost 13,000 reports about animals found severely injured, trapped, mutilated, choked or even dead from carelessly discarded litter over the past four years.

Hampshire in top ten worst places for litter related animal incidents

Changes on the way to bin collections

Major changes on the way to bin collections announced - full details

Joan Neininger & Ken Selway share a kiss at their wedding reception at Hannover Court, Cinderford, Gloucestershire.

‘Lady’ - who married ‘Tramp’ she found going through bins - dies

These pictures show the 'war zone' that greeted a family arriving for the first time at their historic Â£1.5m manor home - after the seller 'gutted' it before completion

Family devastated after new £1.5m home ‘gutted’ by seller be he left

Creepy morgue to be sold at auction with buyers warned to take ‘great care’ inspecting derelict property

Creepy morgue to be sold at auction with price starting at £55,000

See inside the £795k rundown mansion which comes with a health warning

Homeowners could be liable for £50k fine if your neighbour does ‘this’ to your property

Neighbours could land homeowners a £50k fine according to obscure law

The terraced house in Whitnash Grove, Coventry could easily be a smart family home but for one major snag the property has suffered from extensive fire damage inside

House labelled ‘Britain’s filthiest’ sells at auction for £175,000

Stacey Solomon shares cheap 25p cleaning hack for removing limescale

A look at the UK’s most neglected street compared to The Last Of Us

The Banksy mural in in Lowestoft, Suffolk, after the skip was removed

Removal of part of a Banksy work has now left the mural ‘worthless’

Masked Singer elimination: Piece of Cake’s reason for taking part

First News: Is Recycling a Load of Rubbish?

Footage of the minibus being driven away

Headteacher’s plea for information as thieves steal school minibus

Bottles at Elm Grove. Picture: Richard Coates

Bin collection ‘saga’ causing health concerns

Rubbish left in Raven Close, Gosport
Picture: Gosport Borough Council Streetscene team

Rubbish dumped in Gosport sparks anger from police and council staff

It has cost Portsmouth City Council more than £1,000 to clear a large amount of rubbish left strewn all across a Port Solent field where a traveller encampment was set up last week. Picture: Tony Hewitt

Port Solent traveller encampment cost Portsmouth council £1,000 to clean up

6 Kings Road, Cowplain, on Christmas Day 2020

Businessman who owns 'eyesore' house spends £60,000 and says sorry to residents

Highways England contractors doing a litter pick at Farlington Marshes

Litter levels increased at Farlington Marshes during lockdown

6 Kings Roadd, Cowplain.

Picture: Habibur Rahman

Angry residents pleased as council acts over 'dangerous eyesore' house

11 Playfair Road, in Southsea, pictured in 2015. Picture: Google Street View

Portsmouth residents join together to object to shared home extension