{"id":453341,"date":"2026-03-02T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453341\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:06:07","slug":"nappies-food-and-clothes-damage-recycling-effort-at-worcester-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453341\/","title":{"rendered":"Nappies, food and clothes damage recycling effort at Worcester plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green bin waste from across Herefordshire and Worcestershire gets sent to a recycling plant called EnviroSort in Norton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site processes around 82,000 tonnes of rubbish a year, most of which gets processed and sent to companies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.severnwaste.com\/envirosort\/where-does-it-all-go\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">turn into items like recycled paper, cardboard, drinks bottles, flower pots and bicycle frames, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stuart said: &#8220;It&#8217;s things like wood, metal, clothing, toys and garden items that also end up in the green bins &#8211; items like that can easily be recycled at the household recycling centres. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;But the two biggest contaminators are nappies and food &#8211; we think people put them in there because they haven&#8217;t got enough room in their black bin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It makes life difficult for the people at EnviroSort. If you throw your half-eaten tin of baked beans in there, it means all the recycling around it gets rejected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I do think people try and do the right thing &#8211; it&#8217;s just about thinking about it a bit more and educating themselves on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green bin waste from across Herefordshire and Worcestershire gets sent to a recycling plant called EnviroSort in Norton.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453341","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\/453341","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=453341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}