{"id":176674,"date":"2025-06-11T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176674\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T21:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:23:14","slug":"plans-to-reduce-stevenage-recycling-centre-hours-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176674\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to reduce Stevenage recycling centre hours scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The new administration confirmed they would not proceed with the proposal to reduce the number of days that Stevenage, Ware, Waterdale, and Welwyn Garden City recycling centres are open from seven to five.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They also announced that they would not introduce a booking system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"They also announced that they wouldn't introduce a booking system. \" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The council\u00a0announced that they wouldn&#8217;t introduce a booking system. (Image: Hertfordshire County Council) Councillor Paul Zukowskyj, executive member for Environment, Growth, and Transport, said: &#8220;Recycling centres are well used and important to our residents, and there\u2019s no doubt that a service like this supports our ambition to make our environment greener.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;That\u2019s why we\u2019ve made the decision to scrap the plans for reducing opening days at the four sites that are currently open every day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We also know that when doing a DIY project or clearing garden waste, you don\u2019t always know how long the job will last, so planning a time to take waste to the recycling centre or donate items to be sold in our Reuse shops just isn\u2019t practical.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;That\u2019s why we\u2019ve halted proposals for a booking system too and will be looking at alternative options which we\u2019ll share with our residents in due course.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The plans were initially proposed at the Full Council Budget meeting on February 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new administration confirmed they would not proceed with the proposal to reduce the number of days that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-176674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114666838772078457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176674","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=176674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}