\n As part of the government\u2019s new Simpler Recycling plan, \u00a378 billion has been allocated to help councils roll out new weekly food waste collections.\n<\/p>\n
\n To accommodate this households are expected to receive new bins for food waste. One will be a small caddy that can be placed in the kitchen and another large bin for outside.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, 79 councils, the equivalent of around one in four councils, did not meet the March 31 deadline for the new bins, according to a BBC investigation.\n<\/p>\n
\n The BBC has provided a searchable database, which shows that Oldham will not be fully implementing the new rules until 2034.\n<\/p>\n
\n This is because Oldham is one of the 31 councils to have reached transitional agreements with the government to push back the start date due to \u201carea-specific delivery challenges\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n As the council has reached this agreement, it is not counted among the 57 councils that have missed the March 31 deadline.\n<\/p>\n
What is the Simpler Recycling plan?<\/p>\n
\n Under the plan introduced on March 31, the following four waste categories must be collected separately: food and garden waste, paper and card, all other dry recyclable materials (glass, metal and plastic, including cartons) and residual waste (non-recyclable waste that is sent for energy recovery or to landfill).\n<\/p>\n
\n Circular Economy Minister Mary Creagh said: \u201cWe are ending the bin collections postcode lottery and making it easier for people to recycle wherever they live.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSimplifying these rules will cut out carbon, clean up our streets, and help bring pride back into our communities.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe will continue to work hand-in-hand with local areas\u202fto deliver these changes and ensure there\u2019s more recycled content in the products we buy.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n A full breakdown of the new recycling rules is available on the government website.\n<\/p>\n
\n A council spokesperson said: \u201cOldham Council has a transitional agreement with a start date of 2034. However, the vast majority of households already receive weekly food waste collections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of the government\u2019s new Simpler Recycling plan, \u00a378 billion has been allocated to help councils roll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534090","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\/534090","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=534090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}