{"id":342820,"date":"2025-08-14T03:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342820\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:20:33","slug":"driver-shortage-leads-to-recycling-delays-in-north-somerset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342820\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver shortage leads to recycling delays in North Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n    It said the crews are working \u201cincredibly hard\u201d and thanked residents for their \u201cpatience and understanding\u201d. \u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u201cWe\u2019re currently experiencing a shortage of drivers, which means some recycling and garden waste collections may be delayed,\u201d a spokesperson for North Somerset Council said.\u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u201cOur crews are working incredibly hard under challenging circumstances, and we truly appreciate your patience and understanding. \u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u201cPlease continue to be kind to them. More updates will follow soon. Thank you for bearing with us.\u201d\u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    On Tuesday, August 12, North Somerset Council estimated that two out of seven garden waste rounds were missed, and four out of 28 recycling rounds.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    For Wednesday, August 13, the council similarly estimated\u00a0two out of seven garden waste rounds would be missed &#8211; the majority in Nailsea &#8211;\u00a0and four out of 28 recycling rounds would\u00a0be missed &#8211; most in Clevedon.\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It said the crews are working \u201cincredibly hard\u201d and thanked residents for their \u201cpatience and understanding\u201d. \u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-342820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115024967984969396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342820","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=342820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}