{"id":602192,"date":"2026-05-25T00:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602192\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:42:08","slug":"food-waste-scheme-leads-to-missed-south-kesteven-bin-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602192\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste scheme leads to missed South Kesteven bin collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new food waste service has created additional pressure on bin collections and led to some not being emptied, a council meeting heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Kesteven District Council cabinet member Rhys Baker agreed the recent introduction of the weekly service, which is currently being rolled out across Lincolnshire, had created &#8220;teething issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baker, cabinet member for environment and waste, was responding to concerns raised by councillor Sarah Trotter about collections in her Lincrest ward at the local authority&#8217;s annual general meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re also aware that there are some long-standing teething issues that need a bit more investigation,&#8221; Baker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new food waste service has created additional pressure on bin collections and led to some not being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602192","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\/602192","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=602192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}