\n The system will go live on Monday, March 23, and will apply to the Dorchester, Wimborne, Shaftesbury, and Sherborne sites.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dorset Council said the change aims to reduce queues, improve efficiency, and prevent misuse of the facilities.\n<\/p>\n
\n Entrance to Dorchester Household Recycling Centre. (Image: Dorset Council)\n<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Jon Andrews, cabinet member for place services, said: “We\u2019ve listened to residents and designed a system that\u2019s simple and fair.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It improves the experience for Dorset households, ensures taxpayers aren\u2019t covering waste disposal costs for neighbouring areas, and helps prevent business use of household sites.\n<\/p>\n
\n “By reducing congestion and improving recycling efficiency, the system also supports a cleaner, greener Dorset.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Each site currently receives around 380 visits per day.\n<\/p>\n
\n The new system will offer 430 bookable slots daily per site, with a 30-minute arrival window.\n<\/p>\n
\n Visitors will be able to make multiple bookings on the same day.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dorset residents will not be charged, but non-residents will have to pay.\n<\/p>\n
\n The council has assured residents that bookings will be quick and simple.\n<\/p>\n
\n Same-day slots will be available, and those unable to book online can call the council to reserve a slot.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bookings for the new system will open on Monday, March 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The system will go live on Monday, March 23, and will apply to the Dorchester, Wimborne, Shaftesbury, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469175","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\/469175","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=469175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}