{"id":783964,"date":"2026-09-27T05:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783964\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T05:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:34:28","slug":"all-liverpool-households-to-get-food-waste-bins-by-end-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783964\/","title":{"rendered":"All Liverpool households to get food waste bins by end of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool City Council has confirmed all homes across the city will have received a food waste bin by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 100,000 households have already received the bins, with about 100 tonnes of food waste being collected each week, the authority said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The next phase of the roll-out will start from 26 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each household is provided with two food waste bins or &#8220;caddies&#8221;, a smaller container for use inside the home and a larger one to be stored alongside existing purple, blue and green bins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is 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\">Officials told Liverpool City Council&#8217;s sustainable, safe and thriving neighbourhoods committee that six phases of the rollout had now been completed, reaching about 105,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helen Cunningham, Streetscene operations manager, said 59% of households that had received the new caddies were taking part in the scheme, above the national average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said they were &#8220;seeing excellent residential behaviours&#8221; which was supporting the roll-out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool City Council has confirmed all homes across the city will have received a food waste bin by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783964","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\/783964","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=783964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}