\n From November, households will be able to recycle soft plastics including carrier bags, bread bags, crisp packets and multipack wrapping from home.\n<\/p>\n
\n The scheme will start with around 10,000 homes before expanding across the city by 2027.\n<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Yvonne Forsey, cabinet member for recycling, waste, and climate change, said: “People in Newport already take recycling responsibilities seriously, and we know lots of them want to go further and recycle their soft plastics at the kerbside too.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I\u2019m therefore very pleased that we\u2019ll be launching our new soft plastic kerbside collections service next month.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The new service will make it easier for all of us to recycle things like crisp packets, carrier bags, plastic wrapping and cereal box liners to name a few.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Every item recycled will help make Newport and our planet a cleaner, healthier place to live, and we know residents will play their part like they always do.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Newport residents recycle more than 71 per cent of their waste, putting the city among the UK’s top performers.\n<\/p>\n
\n But plastic bags and wrapping still make up around eight per cent of waste in the city’s rubbish bins.\n<\/p>\n
\n The service will turn these items into new products such as reusable shopping bags and bin bags.\n<\/p>\n
\n Homes in the first rollout will receive clear sacks and a leaflet explaining how to use the service from their next recycling day.\n<\/p>\n
\n Anyone who does not receive the sacks and leaflet is not yet included and should keep taking soft plastics to existing recycling points.\n<\/p>\n
\n A council spokesperson said: “If you haven\u2019t received a roll of sacks and our information leaflet about the new service, that means we haven\u2019t rolled it out to your home yet.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Until we start collecting plastic bags and wrapping from your home in 2027, please continue taking your plastic bags and wrapping to recycling collection points.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The council has a dedicated soft-plastics collection page on its website.\n<\/p>\n
\n From March 2027, producers will be responsible for covering councils\u2019 costs of providing soft plastic recycling services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From November, households will be able to recycle soft plastics including carrier bags, bread bags, crisp packets and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816717","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\/816717","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=816717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}