{"id":795126,"date":"2026-10-07T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795126\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:22:10","slug":"hazardous-waste-collection-days-announced-for-norfolk-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795126\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazardous waste collection days announced for Norfolk tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26613767.council-leaders-urge-earlier-norfolk-suffolk-mayoral-poll\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Norfolk County Council<\/a> will hold the events at recycling centres across the county this autumn, offering locals a free and safe way to dispose of items such as aerosols, anti-freeze, drain cleaners, fertilisers, paint and weed killer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first event will take place at Norwich South Recycling Centre on Friday, October 16, and Saturday, October 17.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Additional dates include King&#8217;s Lynn Recycling Centre on October 23 and 24, Thetford on October 30 and 31, and Caister Recycling Centre on November 6 and 7.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Events will also be held at Dereham on November 13 and 14, Hempton on November 20 and 21 and Norwich North on November 27 and 28.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  People must book online or by phone, with booking opening eight days before each event.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The service is strictly for household waste and commercial or organisational waste will not be accepted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As part of Reform-led Norfolk County Council\u2019s budget proposals for next year, they intend to reduce the number of hazardous waste amnesty days, to save \u00a3200,000 a year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  That move has been criticised by political opponents.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kay Mason Billing, leader of the Conservative group at County Hall, said: \u201cThat risks creating precisely the wrong incentive.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It will make responsible disposal harder and some waste may end up fly-tipped, leaving Norfolk\u2019s district councils, and ultimately the same taxpayers, to pick up the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norfolk County Council will hold the events at recycling centres across the county this autumn, offering locals a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795126","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\/795126","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=795126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}