{"id":140674,"date":"2025-09-16T07:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140674\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:38:06","slug":"torridge-council-encourages-people-to-reuse-or-recycle-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140674\/","title":{"rendered":"Torridge council encourages people to reuse or recycle clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said it would accept clothes, clean pairs of shoes, duvet and pillow covers, sheets and curtains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents are advised to put the recyclable items on top of paper inside the green bag to ensure they stay clean and dry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added up to three items could be accepted per collection and the Salvation Army would then sort the items for resale, donations or to be turned into rags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Chris Leather, the council&#8217;s lead member for operational services, said: &#8220;The amount of textiles that end up in our black bags each year is absolutely staggering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you find any unwanted textiles, we will ensure these are put to good use when you recycle them in your green bag.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council said it would accept clothes, clean pairs of shoes, duvet and pillow covers, sheets and curtains.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-140674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}