{"id":635878,"date":"2026-06-13T01:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635878\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:57:10","slug":"norfolk-county-council-says-electrical-waste-ban-remains-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635878\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk County Council says electrical waste ban remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The partial ban on electrical items has been in place at Norfolk&#8217;s recycling centres after Wiser Recycling at Thetford, which Norfolk County Council used to process many of the electrical items people take to tips, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26035895.fire-wiser-recycling-centre-thetford-investigation\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hit by a major fire.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Some electrical items remain banned from recycling centres and Norfolk County Council says it is still working hard to &#8220;find new treatment contracts through the national scheme&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The fire ripped through Wiser Recycling in Thetford (Image: Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Currently, washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers, cookers, televisions, monitors and laptops can still be taken to recycling centres, but all other electrical items are not being accepted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for Norfolk County Council said: &#8220;Please continue to store waste electrical items at home and remember that batteries and electrical items should never be put in your household bins as they can start fires.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We will provide an update as soon as we can accept them.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  District council bulky waste collections may also be affected and people have been advised to check directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The partial ban on electrical items has been in place at Norfolk&#8217;s recycling centres after Wiser Recycling at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635878","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\/635878","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=635878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}