{"id":681386,"date":"2026-07-09T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681386\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:57:15","slug":"north-london-council-to-roll-back-use-of-blue-sacks-as-residents-stop-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681386\/","title":{"rendered":"North London council to roll back use of blue sacks as residents &#8216;stop recycling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introduced in October 2023, the scheme required residents with blue-lidded bins to separate card and paper from other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/recycling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recycling<\/a> items, such as glass, metal, and plastic, into the new 90-litre blue sacks. However, the policy proved unpopular, culminating in a 3,500-signature petition demanding its abolition. Residents cited concerns over the sacks\u2019 poor quality and lack of capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introduced in October 2023, the scheme required residents with blue-lidded bins to separate card and paper from other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[227490,1397,227491,6802,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-brent-council","tag-environment","tag-liberal-democrat","tag-recycling","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681386","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=681386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}