{"id":67112,"date":"2025-08-14T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67112\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:27:07","slug":"kirklees-council-to-launch-glass-and-food-waste-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67112\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirklees Council to launch glass and food waste collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under the government’s Simpler Recycling initiative, external<\/a> all councils in England will have to collect residual waste or non-recyclable material, dry recyclables including glass and metal and paper and cards, and food waste.<\/p>\n

Once the changes come in homes are expected to have a minimum of three wheelie bins and a 23 litre caddy for food waste, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tyler Hawkins, cabinet member for highways and waste in Kirklees, said: “The government’s Simpler Recycling plan gives us the opportunity to make a once-in-a-generation improvement to the service for all households in Kirklees.<\/p>\n

“These are big changes so we need to plan them carefully to get the new service right for residents.”<\/p>\n

He said they would also need to invest in new equipment and infrastructure and would take their time and “engage with communities”.<\/p>\n

“While we plan these improvements for the future, we need to make sure we’re getting the basics right in the current service,” he added.<\/p>\n

Kirklees is one of a number of authorities faced with making changes, neighbouring Leeds City Council introduced bins for glass waste<\/a> for the first time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the government’s Simpler Recycling initiative, external all councils in England will have to collect residual waste or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-67112","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\/67112","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=67112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}