Southwark has been named and shamed as the second worst borough in the country for fly-tipping. New government figures show that 25,984 incidents of dumped rubbish were recorded in the borough in 2012/13, putting Southwark at the wrong end of the nation’s fly-tipping league table. The figures also reveal a steady decline in the cleanliness […]

A plan to turn Southwark into one of the nation’s greenest councils will be put forward by local Liberal Democrats next week. Liberal Democrat councillors will use a Council Assembly meeting on Wednesday (16 Oct) to propose the council goes ‘carbon neutral’ by 2018. It would mean the energy used by council buildings, schools, libraries […]

Southwark Council has spent £11,466 buying 637,000 plastic cups in just two years, according to figures obtained by local Liberal Democrats. Put end to end, the cups would stretch the whole 40 miles from Southwark to Southend. Additionally, £20,024 has been spent in on milk sachets and another £7,282 on sugar sachets in the last […]