{"id":482151,"date":"2026-03-18T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482151\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:33:07","slug":"coventry-food-caddies-will-end-up-in-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482151\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry: &#8216;Food caddies will end up in landfill&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council has ordered 141,000 food waste caddies with 23 litre capacity from \u00a31.8m of capital funding received in April 2024 for the service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-67176392\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simpler Recycling legislation was introduced <\/a>to make recycling simpler, and to avoid people needing what it called an &#8220;excessive number of bins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Elliott, the council&#8217;s strategic lead for environmental services, told the board that by doing the collections over five days, they are reducing the size of the bin rounds &#8211; which improves wellbeing for staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;That will mean that some residents will have food waste collected on a different day to other bins, but we will make sure through our communication with residents that it is clear when their collection days are. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It already happens in some parts of the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Tim Sawdon said while his area in Warwick operates the same system, all the bins are collected on the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure that having different collection days is the best way to go about it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;From what you have told me today, I am not entirely convinced that what you are proposing is going to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council has ordered 141,000 food waste caddies with 23 litre capacity from \u00a31.8m of capital funding received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482151","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\/482151","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=482151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}