{"id":474785,"date":"2026-03-14T06:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474785\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:35:18","slug":"darlington-food-waste-deadline-to-be-missed-over-supplier-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474785\/","title":{"rendered":"Darlington food waste deadline to be missed over &#8216;supplier issue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs (Defra) required every household in England to get collections from April, but the BBC previously revealed a quarter of councils would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpv8ye887e4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">miss this deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Labour-led council had been on course to meet the new requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darlington residents are being asked to not put food waste bins out for collection until the new start date and should continue to put the waste in the normal household bin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The delay will also impact the start of weekly recycling collections, which would come in at the same time as food waste collections, the council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents will be asked to put food peelings, leftovers, out-of-date items and tea bags, in a lined caddy and in the outside food waste bin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The food waste bin will be collected once a week with general recycling bins and green glass boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs (Defra) required every household in England to get collections from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-474785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474785","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=474785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}