{"id":137735,"date":"2025-11-16T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/137735\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:24:07","slug":"new-campaign-urges-reading-residents-to-recycle-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/137735\/","title":{"rendered":"New campaign urges Reading residents to recycle food waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A local authority is encouraging its residents to recycle &#8220;every crust, peel and coffee ground&#8221; to help the environment and local farmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Reading Borough Council will give residents a free roll of food waste caddy liners over the festive season to encourage recycling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Karen Rowland, the council&#8217;s environmental services and community safety lead, said Reading was recycling less food waste per household than Bracknell Forest and Wokingham and this gave residents &#8220;no excuse not to start&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The council said all households and most flats in the Berkshire town already have access to weekly food waste collections but nearly 30% of general waste still consists of food that could be recycled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Rowland said: &#8220;Every crust, peel and coffee ground you recycle helps to create renewable energy and nutrient-rich compost used by local farmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a simple way we can all do something positive for our community and the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said many local people were passionate about the environment but the authority would also be providing stickers to locals as &#8220;a gentle reminder&#8221; that food waste belongs in the caddy and not the grey non-recyclable bin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local authority is encouraging its residents to recycle &#8220;every crust, peel and coffee ground&#8221; to help the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-137735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}