{"id":169155,"date":"2025-09-29T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169155\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:15:14","slug":"residents-face-frustrating-food-waste-collection-delays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169155\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents face &#8216;frustrating&#8217; food waste collection delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A similar situation has presented itself in Cumbria, with Cumberland Council and Westmorland and Furness Council saying they had agreed &#8220;bespoke transitional arrangements&#8221; with the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said contract changes would expose them to &#8220;potentially significant&#8221; financial claims from the contractor, which the government would not underwrite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helen Davison, a Green Party Councillor at Cumberland Council, said she had been pushing the council to implement the changes before 2034 &#8211; when the 25-year waste contract ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really frustrated by it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added the changes would mean &#8220;a better environment for us all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The thing about separate food waste collections is that actually what it does, as well as reducing the amount of emissions&#8230; it supports people to actually reduce the amount of food waste they&#8217;re producing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A similar situation has presented itself in Cumbria, with Cumberland Council and Westmorland and Furness Council saying they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-169155","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\/169155","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=169155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}