{"id":234134,"date":"2025-10-30T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234134\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:34:07","slug":"torfaen-council-no-longer-able-to-recycle-plastic-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234134\/","title":{"rendered":"Torfaen council no longer able to recycle plastic film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Film or \u201cstretchy\u201d plastic was previously collected as part of a weekly kerbside collection but Councillor Nick Horler said since the service has been unavailable items\u00a0 have taken too much space in purple lidded wheelie bins that are only emptied once every fortnight.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Blaenavon independent councillor asked at\u00a0Torfean Borough Council\u2019s October meeting if any changes are planned to the service and said: \u201cStretchy plastic can currently fill\u00a0purple lidded bins if the resident\u00a0is\u00a0unable to take it to\u00a0the\u00a0New Inn recycling centre.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Council leader Anthony Hunt said the processor which had collected plastic film on behalf of the council had ceased trading last year meaning it was unable to continue to offer the service.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0say if any changes are currently planned for collections in Torfaen but said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwalesargus.co.uk\/news\/24963593.council-refused-take-recycling-bag-wrong-plastic\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recycling of plastic\u00a0film will become mandatory from April 2027<\/a> and the Welsh Government has funded\u00a0kerbside collection\u00a0trials in the Vale of Glamorgan and Swansea.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While\u00a0collection is currently only available in those areas the\u00a0Panteg\u00a0Labour councillor said: \u201cOfficers will be closely monitoring to identify any potential future opportunities for recycling at our own centre and ultimately at the kerbside.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cllr Hunt also said he accepted plastic film can \u201cbe bulky\u201d but said when it is compressed more can be squeezed into the wheelie bins for non recyclable waste and said: \u201cFor the time being residents may wish to take it to supermarkets who offer this service.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Film or \u201cstretchy\u201d plastic was previously collected as part of a weekly kerbside collection but Councillor Nick Horler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-234134","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\/234134","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=234134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}