{"id":762730,"date":"2026-09-07T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762730\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:40:09","slug":"new-containers-to-be-rolled-out-in-bristol-recycling-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762730\/","title":{"rendered":"New containers to be rolled out in Bristol recycling drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New recycling containers are to be rolled out in Bristol &#8211; with the first batch delivered to residents on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new red bag for plastics and cans, which is 60% bigger than the old green box, will be given to households along with a blue bag for card and paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The swap will happen on the usual bin days for each area and be done by crews. City bosses hope the move will boost recycling rates by a further 2%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Abi Finch, chair of Bristol City Council&#8217;s environment and sustainability committee, said the old boxes used to lead to recycling blowing across streets. &#8220;These new containers have been carefully chosen to resolve these issues after listening to people&#8217;s concerns.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New recycling containers are to be rolled out in Bristol &#8211; with the first batch delivered to residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762730","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\/762730","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=762730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}