{"id":757524,"date":"2026-09-02T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757524\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:02:25","slug":"charnwood-borough-council-sets-out-plan-for-food-waste-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757524\/","title":{"rendered":"Charnwood Borough Council sets out plan for food waste collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charnwood Borough Council has said it will introduce food waste collections for the majority of households later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority expects the service to begin for most homes from 2 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Collections for households with communal bin store areas, including blocks of flats and shared accommodation, are scheduled to start in 2027, the council added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service is being introduced as part of the government&#8217;s Simpler Recycling reforms, which require all councils in England to collect food waste separately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said each household would receive two caddies &#8211; one for in the home and another to place outside for emptying &#8211; and a roll of liners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For those with collections starting in November, delivery of the caddy packs will start at the end of September and take a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Households with communal bin stores will receive caddy packs closer to the start of their collection service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charnwood Borough Council has said it will introduce food waste collections for the majority of households later this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-757524","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\/757524","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=757524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}