{"id":403669,"date":"2026-02-02T09:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403669\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:45:22","slug":"weekly-food-waste-collection-in-shropshire-not-achievable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403669\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly food waste collection in Shropshire &#8216;not achievable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month, the council warned its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp87z6m1p41o\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spiralling financial situation<\/a> could leave residents paying off debt for decades. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vasmer said since 2023, the authority had worked closely with Defra and the council&#8217;s waste contractor Veolia to find the most cost-effective weekly food waste service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In our dialogue with Defra we have raised concerns about the mechanism and amount of revenue to operate the service in the long term,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were told that this would be covered by funding that could only be spent on the collection of food waste.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vasmer said separate funding had been provided which included for vehicles and bins, but the recent settlement &#8220;failed to provide any revenue funding for a weekly food waste service&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To start the service from April this year would place a significant financial risk on the council at a time when it already faces unprecedented financial pressure on existing services,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, the council warned its spiralling financial situation could leave residents paying off debt for decades.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-403669","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\/403669","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=403669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}