{"id":301229,"date":"2026-02-25T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301229\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:31:07","slug":"tower-hamlets-the-borough-with-englands-lowest-recycling-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301229\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Hamlets: The borough with England’s lowest recycling rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Tower Hamlets resident believes the borough should be looking to her country of birth for inspiration when it comes to improving its recycling rates.<\/p>\n

Environmental artist Sylvietta is originally from Milan, where recycling has been taken seriously for decades.<\/p>\n

There, instead of collecting all recycling together in one bag, people have various bins for the recycling of food, paper, plastic, metals and glass, as well as a bin for general waste. <\/p>\n

Italy is one of the top countries for recycling in Europe, according to the EU, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At her flat in a local authority block in Bow, where she creates pictures and sculptures out of litter she has collected, she feels the council could learn a thing or two from the country.<\/p>\n

“Italians are not famous for following rules, they are more creative. But if you’re fined regularly you embrace it,” says Sylvietta.<\/p>\n

In Italy if one resident contaminates the wrong bin, the whole block can expect a fine, she explains.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately it requires a little bit of fear to respect the rules. Ultimately they are good for everyone.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Tower Hamlets resident believes the borough should be looking to her country of birth for inspiration when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-301229","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\/301229","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=301229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}