{"id":603641,"date":"2026-05-25T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603641\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:45:17","slug":"talking-bin-tackles-littering-by-thanking-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603641\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking bin tackles littering by thanking users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A talking bin has been unveiled in an initiative aimed at tackling roadside litter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new bin has been installed in a layby near Upottery on the A303 by National Highways and East Devon District Council and will be monitored as part of a trial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 570-litre (151 gallons) capacity bin operates by compacting the waste people drop into the machine and will even offer up a courtesy &#8220;thank you&#8221; message to any drivers using the bin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bin will also indicate when it has reached its capacity and will message East Devon&#8217;s Streetscene teams when full, in a bid to save operatives time on their collection routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A talking bin has been unveiled in an initiative aimed at tackling roadside litter. The new bin has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-603641","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\/603641","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=603641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}