{"id":309394,"date":"2026-02-25T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309394\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:48:08","slug":"residents-of-flats-in-somerset-welcome-food-waste-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309394\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of flats in Somerset welcome food waste collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will also be new fortnightly collections for soft plastics and cartons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New communal wheelie bins will be issued with different coloured lids to help residents to separate their waste properly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Richard Wilkins, who is in charge of waste services at Somerset Council, said: &#8220;People in flats have been asking to be able to do more recycling for an awful long time, this will enable them to do this. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Change is always difficult, but from my understanding, we&#8217;ve made this as easy as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changes are funded by the government&#8217;s Simpler Recycling programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Recycling of soft plastics will not be made mandatory until 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will also be new fortnightly collections for soft plastics and cartons. New communal wheelie bins will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-309394","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\/309394","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=309394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}