{"id":480830,"date":"2026-03-17T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480830\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:00:07","slug":"food-waste-caddies-being-sent-to-60000-homes-in-stafford-borough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480830\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste caddies being sent to 60,000 homes in Stafford borough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The kerbside caddies will then be collected alongside green, blue and brown bins and there will be no additional charge for the new equipment or the service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Food waste that is collected would go to an anaerobic digestion plant, Stafford Borough Council said, where it would be converted into energy and material for use in agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian Fordham, council cabinet member for environment, said upcoming government rules required all local authorities to provide a separate food collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many councils, however, will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj6dn1l2lrpo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">miss the original deadline for introducing the scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The new service has been funded by central government and will be run alongside our residents&#8217; usual recycling and waste collection days,&#8221; Fordham said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Things that can go in the new caddies include fruit and vegetables &#8211; including peelings \u2013 as well as fish, meat and bones plus tea bags, coffee grounds, eggs and dairy products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said the caddies should not be used for liquids, oils or fats, garden waste or food packaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Food waste made up about a third of household rubbish which was currently incinerated, the authority said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall, about 45% of what Stafford borough households throw out is recycled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The kerbside caddies will then be collected alongside green, blue and brown bins and there will be no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-480830","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\/480830","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=480830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}