Environment

The row about how to improve household recycling continues with councillors no nearer to reaching agreement.

Recycling centre opening hours could change in an attempt to tackle fly tipping.

Residents of the Falkirk Council area need to be educated on fly-tipping according to councillors.

Visitors to a Falkirk tourist attraction are being urged to bag and bin their rubbish or take it home with them.

Occupants of Breton Court and Corentin Court in Falkirk are the latest to have complained to the council about flooding damaging their homes.

Falkirk residents are urged to make sure the Scottish Government gets their message about the proposed bottle deposit plans.

Laziness could be a key factor causing fly-tipping according to residents who have taken part in a survey to address the problem.

It may be difficult to picture at the moment with the hot dry summer we’re enjoying, but flooding is a clear and present danger we all need to be aware of.

Last December there were a total of 5460 residential properties at risk from flooding in the Falkirk, Clackmannanshire and Stirling according to SEPA.

Potentially Vulnerable Areas (PVAs) are locations where significant flood risk exists now or is likely to occur in the future.

Things are literally buzzing at Grangemouth’s Jupiter Urban Wildlife Centre this summer as nature comes out to play.

The Himalayan balsam may seem like a pretty pink flower, but it is sweeping across Lionthorn woods and “choking out” native wildflowers in the process.

Elected members from Falkirk assured residents no fracking would take place in Scotland after their own party decided to extend a firm’s licence to carry out the process locally.

Environmental groups admitted they were disappointed the Scottish Government opted to extend a petrochemical giant’s fracking rights – despite the fact there is effectively an ongoing ban on the process.

Locals in Bonnybridge have been treated to not one, but two, beautiful residential gardens.

A mound of rubbish discarded by fly-tippers has been left to lie in a Falkirk park for almost two months.