{"id":1190898,"date":"2026-09-07T06:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1190898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:02:15","slug":"new-containers-to-be-rolled-out-in-bristol-recycling-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1190898\/","title":{"rendered":"New containers to be rolled out in Bristol recycling drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">New recycling containers are to be rolled out in Bristol &#8211; with the first batch delivered to residents on Monday.<\/b><\/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":1190899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-1190898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117228243817127788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}