\n Officials at South Norfolk Council say they are hoping to receive its new fleet next month after being forced to miss the March 31 deadline to offer a simpler recycling system.\n<\/p>\n
\n Councils across the country are changing how they collect waste as part of new measures introduced by the government, which include weekly food waste collections.\n<\/p>\n
\n The delay in receiving new vehicles has meant the council has pushed back the launch of its changes to the new recycling service by 10 weeks.\n<\/p>\n
\n Every council in the country is having to make changes to how it recycles (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n The council had been aiming to have its fleet ready this month, but the flurry in demand for specialist vehicles has caused a backlog in the supply chain.\n<\/p>\n
\n Martyn Hooton, responsible for environment at the council, confirmed at a recent meeting that leftover food waste caddies would be delivered to homes from the start of July.\n<\/p>\n
\n An initial 28,000 homes will receive a caddy, although it is yet to be decided which properties are going to be delivered to first.\n<\/p>\n
\n Martyn Hooton, who holds responsibility for the environment at South Norfolk Council (Image: SNC)\n<\/p>\n
\n From Monday, September 28 a further 41,000 homes will be sent their caddy.\n<\/p>\n
\n A third and final phase will be targeted at delivering the new service to HMOs and blocks of flats.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have employed three extra members of staff now who are going to assist with that piece of work,\u201d said Mr Hooton.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThose premises that do present that slightly more difficult challenge will be visited separately and a method of food waste recycling will be discussed.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n He added the July date hinges on the collection vehicles being delivered on time.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf that all goes as planned, the start date will then be confirmed,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n At the same meeting, Kathryn Cross, councillor for Hethersett, was elected chairman of the council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials at South Norfolk Council say they are hoping to receive its new fleet next month after being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599567","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\/599567","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=599567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}