{"id":479591,"date":"2026-03-17T02:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479591\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:12:10","slug":"food-waste-collection-deadline-will-be-missed-by-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479591\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste collection deadline will be missed by council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Under the new simpler recycling law, the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs (Defra) has that by March 31 councils will be required to collect recycling including food waste from \u201call households in England\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In January, BCP Council confirmed an additional 102,673 households in Bournemouth and Poole would be getting food waste collections every week starting from April 6, 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Households in Christchurch have had food waste recycling available since 2012.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It has been reported previously that as the scheme is part of national recycling reforms it has taken longer to roll out the service across all areas of BCP.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The roll out of food waste bins to homes and flats across Bournemouth and Poole began in February 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Individual households have been receiving a kitchen caddy and an external food waste bin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Flats that have communal bins will be receiving kitchen caddies and communal external food waste bins until March 27.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One roll of liners will be provided when caddies are delivered, after that residents can purchase compostable liners can be purchased online or from most supermarkets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the new simpler recycling law, the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs (Defra) has that by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-479591","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\/479591","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=479591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}