{"id":462263,"date":"2025-09-30T05:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462263\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T05:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:19:21","slug":"residents-face-frustrating-food-waste-collection-delays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462263\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents face &#8216;frustrating&#8217; food waste collection delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A similar situation has presented itself in Cumbria, with Cumberland Council and Westmorland and Furness Council saying they had agreed &#8220;bespoke transitional arrangements&#8221; with the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said contract changes would expose them to &#8220;potentially significant&#8221; financial claims from the contractor, which the government would not underwrite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helen Davison, a Green Party Councillor at Cumberland Council, said she had been pushing the council to implement the changes before 2034 &#8211; when the 25-year waste contract ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really frustrated by it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added the changes would mean &#8220;a better environment for us all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The thing about separate food waste collections is that actually what it does, as well as reducing the amount of emissions&#8230; it supports people to actually reduce the amount of food waste they&#8217;re producing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A similar situation has presented itself in Cumbria, with Cumberland Council and Westmorland and Furness Council saying they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-462263","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\/115291564773630339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462263","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=462263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}