{"id":276794,"date":"2026-02-10T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276794\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:20:08","slug":"central-bedfordshire-council-changes-household-waste-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276794\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Bedfordshire Council changes household waste collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The changes will enable people to put glass bottles and jars in kerbside dry recycling bins, alongside paper, card, cans, tins, aluminium foil, plastic bottles, pots, tubs, trays and cartons.<\/p>\n

Residents are being told to use existing bins with green or orange lids, or an orange sack if they have one.<\/p>\n

Those who currently receive kerbside glass collection using a box will need to use a dry recycling bin instead.<\/p>\n

Wye said: “Adding glass to dry recycling bins means no more trips to the bottle bank, while introducing food waste caddies for flats means every household can recycle food waste weekly.”<\/p>\n

Although a phased removal of bottle banks will take place, glass recycling will continue to be available at the authority’s four Household Waste Recycling Centres, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wye added that “including glass in recycling collections will increase the volume of material collected, which means additional vehicles are needed”.<\/p>\n

“To keep services running efficiently, we therefore need to reorganise some collection rounds.”<\/p>\n

Households will receive a letter explaining the new system, with updated collection dates due to be published on the council’s website.<\/p>\n

Food waste caddies and waste bins for people living in flats will be delivered from late February into mid March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The changes will enable people to put glass bottles and jars in kerbside dry recycling bins, alongside paper,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-276794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276794","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=276794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}