{"id":446531,"date":"2026-02-26T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446531\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:09:14","slug":"cumbria-councils-say-people-are-putting-recycling-in-wrong-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446531\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumbria councils say people are putting recycling in wrong bin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People putting cardboard and plastic bottles into the wrong bin have been blamed for a county having some of the highest waste figures in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The average person living in the Cumberland Council area threw away 460.8kg (0.46 tonnes) of household waste in the 2023-24 financial year, while those in Westmorland and Furness threw away 460.2kg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The figures, which are the most recent available, are the seventh and eighth highest in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The councils said they were &#8220;still seeing paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and glass&#8221; in their &#8220;residual waste stream&#8221; and would be writing to residents to clarify misconceptions about what could be recycled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People putting cardboard and plastic bottles into the wrong bin have been blamed for a county having some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-446531","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\/446531","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=446531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}