{"id":445364,"date":"2026-02-25T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445364\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:57:11","slug":"food-waste-in-sussex-will-be-made-into-compost-and-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445364\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste in Sussex will be made into compost and energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All the food waste from East Sussex and Brighton &amp; Hove will be taken to the Woodlands In-Vessel Composting facility in Whitesmith, near Golden Cross, run by Veolia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manager Colin Hirsh said: &#8220;All this used to go into landfill, now we make a really high quality product with it that helps condition our soil. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re really proud of what we do here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said while 3,000 tonnes of waste were collected from Lewes district in 2013, subsequent years have seen just 1,000 tonnes collected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We think once people saw the amount of waste they were producing they took action to reduce what they wasted,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the food waste from East Sussex and Brighton &amp; Hove will be taken to the Woodlands In-Vessel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-445364","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\/445364","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=445364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}