{"id":594122,"date":"2026-05-20T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594122\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:03:15","slug":"new-recycling-facility-for-cambridgeshire-would-be-long-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594122\/","title":{"rendered":"New recycling facility for Cambridgeshire would be &#8216;long process&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green councillor Darren Green told the meeting that blue bin recycling from Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire was taken to Northern Ireland &#8220;just to be sorted and then is passed on to other locations throughout the UK or Europe for processing&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So yes, I&#8217;m very encouraged to see that there is going to be an effort to change this. I think this council must do everything it can to change this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour councillor Mike Black, referencing Northern Ireland, said &#8220;everybody can see that this looks ridiculous&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t like hearing local government review used as an excuse for doing nothing or delaying things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservative Steve Tierney said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not ideal to send things to Northern Ireland, I accept that and I&#8217;d like to see a change that changes that, but only if it&#8217;s cost effective for the taxpayer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If this works out to be the cheapest way to do it for the taxpayer then I would carry on supporting doing it, for the simple reason that I don&#8217;t think we need to be layering costs upon taxpayers for virtue projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green councillor Darren Green told the meeting that blue bin recycling from Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire was taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594122","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\/594122","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=594122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}