{"id":393864,"date":"2026-01-27T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393864\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:01:11","slug":"weekly-food-waste-collections-to-go-ahead-in-chichester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393864\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly food waste collections to go ahead in Chichester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The service will be rolled out in Chichester over the coming months and will be introduced in stages, with distribution of bins beginning in March.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Councillor Mark Chilton, cabinet member for finance, corporate services and Chichester Contract Services at Chichester District Council, said: &#8220;This project is a huge undertaking, and we are asking residents to please bear with us as we deliver caddies and bins to every individual property across more than 300 square miles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Implementing a new service like this requires meticulous planning, but we are really pleased with the progress made so far.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A brand\u2011new weekly food waste recycling service will start to be rolled out to residents across the Chichester District from this spring. (Image: Allan Hutchings Photography)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This will be a significant change and promises to bring substantial benefits to our district &#8211; especially as around a third of the average rubbish bin in the Chichester District is food waste.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The council advises residents to download its free app or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chichester.gov.uk\/checkyourbinday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chichester.gov.uk\/checkyourbinday<\/a>\u00a0to confirm collection dates.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  From March, all councils in England without an existing food waste collection service must introduce one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As the service will be introduced in phases, delivery timings will vary by area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Once the scheme begins, residents should place food waste &#8211; including plate scrapings, peelings and tea bags &#8211; into the kitchen caddy, then transfer it to the outdoor food waste bin for weekly collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The service will be rolled out in Chichester over the coming months and will be introduced in stages,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393864","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\/393864","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=393864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}