{"id":651082,"date":"2026-06-21T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:18:09","slug":"put-your-bins-out-earlier-in-the-coming-heatwave-councils-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651082\/","title":{"rendered":"Put your bins out earlier in the coming heatwave, councils say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Waste crews often start earlier during heatwaves to avoid peak temperatures, keeping workers safe while maintaining efficient and hygienic collections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheltenham Borough Council said normal collections were set to resume on Monday 29 June, but if hot weather persists, the change could continue throughout summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Steve Harvey said: &#8220;This is to help our crews and vehicles cope in the heat and ensure that they&#8217;re able to complete the scheduled collections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Residents are asked to put their recycling boxes, food caddies, refuse and garden bins out for collection at kerbside by 06:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our crews will do their very best to be as quiet as possible whilst out collecting earlier in the morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waste crews often start earlier during heatwaves to avoid peak temperatures, keeping workers safe while maintaining efficient and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651082","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\/651082","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=651082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}