{"id":233561,"date":"2025-10-30T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233561\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:33:07","slug":"binfluencer-son-helps-bury-family-save-thousands-with-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233561\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Binfluencer&#8217; son helps Bury family save thousands with recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family also use reusable food bags and washable makeup remover pads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We also use biodegradable toothbrushes, tooth flossers, earbuds and have a bio bin upstairs,&#8221; Gemma said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a result of their recycling efforts, she said their general waste bin can last up to 12 weeks before it needs to be emptied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For anything that cannot be recycled from home, the family take it elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This includes flexible plastic and batteries to supermarket recycling facilities, and old clothes, electronics,  and old pens are taken to high street shops which run recycling schemes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Only dog poo and the occasional wet wipes go in the general waste bin, in biodegradable bags,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tommy added: &#8220;It&#8217;s fun to be able to recycle. I like seeing the bins getting filled up and also knowing that we don&#8217;t waste anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Georgia Gibson, Biffa&#8217;s Social Value Manager in Manchester, said it was &#8220;wonderful to see Tommy and his family inspiring people to waste less and recycle more&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family also use reusable food bags and washable makeup remover pads. &#8220;We also use biodegradable toothbrushes, tooth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-233561","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\/233561","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=233561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}