{"id":275876,"date":"2025-07-19T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275876\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:49:11","slug":"three-weekly-bin-rounds-loom-in-one-of-worst-performing-areas-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275876\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-weekly bin rounds loom in one of ‘worst-performing’ areas in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is one of the worst areas of Wales for recycling\"GenericGeneric image of black wheelie bins(Image: Darren Quinton\/Reach)<\/p>\n

A decision on cuts to bin rounds in a Welsh county is expected in the coming days. Caerphilly<\/a> Council has proposed reducing its collections of non-recyclable waste from a fortnightly to a three-weekly service.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaerphilly is currently underperforming against statutory recycling targets and faces potential backdated fines of approximately \u00a33.728 million,\u201d the council warned in a new report. \u201cAlthough [the Welsh Government<\/a>] previously chose not to impose fines for 2020\/21, this decision was based on the expectation that clear and decisive actions would be taken to meet future statutory requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local authorities have to recycle 70% of the waste they collect but in recent years Caerphilly has lagged behind government targets and scored among the worst-performing areas of Wales.<\/p>\n

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The council\u2019s waste strategy sets out a series of immediate and longer-term measures to drive up the borough\u2019s recycling rates.<\/p>\n

Among the latest initiatives is the proposal to cut collections of \u201cresidual waste\u201d, after researchers found around 59% of the contents of a typical bin in Caerphilly could instead be recycled.<\/p>\n

A typical household in the county produces an average of 410kg of residual waste annually, which is much higher than the Welsh average of 360kg.<\/p>\n

The council believes reducing the frequency of bin collections would encourage people to think more about what they are throwing away and be encouraged to recycle items instead.<\/p>\n

An additional proposal is to introduce a \u201ckerbside sorting\u201d system for recyclables, in which residents would separate materials such as plastics, cardboard and paper at home before the council collects them.<\/p>\n

Together with the measures already introduced, the council believes these proposals could result in an 11% improvement in its recycling rates, which would lift the area above the Welsh Government\u2019s 70% target.<\/p>\n

Year-round garden waste collections could also be limited to running between March and November, while the council has proposed a new service for picking up nappies and other absorbent hygiene products.<\/p>\n

Cabinet members are expected to discuss the proposals at a meeting on July 23.<\/p>\n

If the measures are approved they are expected to come into effect some time from late 2027 to early 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is one of the worst areas of Wales for recyclingGeneric image of black wheelie bins(Image: Darren Quinton\/Reach)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[69752,104180,728,285,70,16,15,14794,961],"class_list":{"0":"post-275876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-caerphilly","9":"tag-caerphilly-council","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-welsh-government","16":"tag-your-money"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114882344776307367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275876","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=275876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}