EVERY town and city across the country will receive a major boost to their recycling services thanks to £1billion of funding from central Government.

The government has announced that more than one £1billion will be given to councils to improve recycling services.

This could be spent on offering local residents more streamlined recycling collections which can ensure more household waste is recycled.

At present, the bill for disposing of items like milk bottles, cereal boxes and soup tins is currently footed by local councils with taxpayers paying.

Through the new ‘Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging’ scheme, businesses who produce packaging will pay their fair share of the recycling costs.

Circular Economy Minister Mary Creagh said: ‘This government is cleaning up Britain and ending the throwaway society.

‘Under the Plan for Change, we are pumping more than £1 billion into local recycling services.

‘This will revolutionise how we deal with our waste and ensure more of today’s rubbish is recycled into tomorrow’s packaging’.