{"id":167227,"date":"2025-09-29T03:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167227\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:06:18","slug":"city-councils-promise-food-waste-recycling-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167227\/","title":{"rendered":"City councils promise food waste recycling in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government previously said it wanted to end the &#8220;postcode lottery&#8221; of bin collections in England &#8220;whereby councils collect different materials for recycling, causing confusion for households&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plymouth City Council is <a href=\"https:\/\/democracy.plymouth.gov.uk\/documents\/s150223\/Household%20Waste%20Report.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spending nearly \u00a32m from a government grant , external<\/a>mainly on vehicles and containers to enable food recycling across the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council will have to provide caddies to all 123,000 households and shared communal bins to 29,000 flats and shared houses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the latest report on the plans the council said &#8220;depending on procurement timelines, the service is realistically expected to launch sometime in the spring of 2026&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The food waste will be treated in an anaerobic digestion site to produce renewable energy and slurry for fertilizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government previously said it wanted to end the &#8220;postcode lottery&#8221; of bin collections in England &#8220;whereby councils&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-167227","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\/167227","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=167227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}