{"id":255656,"date":"2025-07-11T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255656\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:00:09","slug":"multi-wheeled-bins-introduced-in-stevenage-recycling-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255656\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-wheeled bins introduced in Stevenage recycling trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/democracy.stevenage.gov.uk\/documents\/s39643\/7%20Simpler%20Recycling%20EPR.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A cabinet meeting, external<\/a> on Wednesday heard that 74 blocks of flats in Stevenage \u2013 59 of them owned by the council \u2013 did not have any recycling provision, said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers said people living there had &#8220;limited general waste provision&#8221;, with purple bags instead of wheelie bins. They said the main issue was access, and it posed a challenge for council staff to safely move bins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of the money being spent, about \u00a3720,000 has been allocated to 41 blocks of flats, including the replacing of steps with ramps as well as improving existing bin stores and building new ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most of the rest of the money will be spent on food waste collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cabinet meeting, external on Wednesday heard that 74 blocks of flats in Stevenage \u2013 59 of them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-255656","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255656","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=255656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}