{"id":309139,"date":"2026-02-25T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309139\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:12:09","slug":"food-waste-collection-deadline-missed-by-one-in-four-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309139\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste collection deadline missed by one in four councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0412dxlqn0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shropshire Council<\/a> said an April launch would place it under &#8220;significant financial risk&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cabinet member David Vasmer said funds were provided for the purchase of vehicles, bins and the initial delivery, but the recent government financial settlement had &#8220;failed to provide any revenue funding for a weekly food waste service&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Derbyshire District Council spokesperson said the supplier of food waste collection vehicles was experiencing &#8220;exceptionally high demand&#8221;, making it difficult to get hold of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And East Hampshire District Council also confirmed availability of bin lorries was behind its delay, saying it did not yet have a date for when food waste collections would start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greg Ford, who lives in Buriton, East Hampshire, already separates his food waste for composting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;It makes you think about food waste, planning what to do with leftovers, so I think ironically collecting people&#8217;s food waste is going to cut down on food waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added the council should take as long as it needed &#8220;to get it right&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shropshire Council said an April launch would place it under &#8220;significant financial risk&#8221;. Cabinet member David Vasmer said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-309139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}