{"id":469417,"date":"2026-03-11T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469417\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:08:08","slug":"west-northants-food-waste-collections-begin-people-in-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469417\/","title":{"rendered":"West Northants food waste collections begin people in flats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We want every resident, no matter where they live, to have access to a clean, straightforward and reliable food waste collection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the council will continue to review bin locations, improve signage and ensure residents are informed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our aim is to help everyone recycle more, waste less and benefit from a service that has already made a positive difference across our communities&#8221;, Stansfield added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said currently, residents recycle more than 9,000 tonnes of food waste every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The waste is anaerobically digested (composting without air) to produce renewable energy and biofertiliser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before West Northamptonshire Council was created in 2021, Northampton Borough and Daventry District Councils started recycling food waste in 2012, and South Northamptonshire Council in 2013. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;We want every resident, no matter where they live, to have access to a clean, straightforward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469417","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\/469417","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=469417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}