{"id":470259,"date":"2026-06-01T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/470259\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:38:07","slug":"food-waste-recycling-delays-in-the-north-east-and-cumbria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/470259\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste recycling delays in the North East and Cumbria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Tyneside Council had hoped to introduce food waste collections in April but the authority has delayed the launch until summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council spokesperson said: &#8220;Like many other councils across the country, our rollout has been delayed due to some supply chain issues. Residents will be notified in advance when the service is due to start in their area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland councils have all been granted an extension until 2039.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All three already have a long-term arrangement in place for processing household waste, including food waste, that complies with the government&#8217;s objective of diverting biodegradable waste away from landfill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All household waste the three councils collect is sent to an energy-from-waste facility, where it is used to create electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a joint statement, they said: &#8220;Maintaining our current arrangement avoids the environmental impact of introducing an additional weekly collection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We also potentially save money as there&#8217;s no immediate need to buy new bin lorries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Tyneside Council had hoped to introduce food waste collections in April but the authority has delayed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-470259","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\/470259","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=470259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}