{"id":678050,"date":"2026-01-06T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678050\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:34:44","slug":"north-somerset-council-secures-refund-for-faulty-recycling-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678050\/","title":{"rendered":"North Somerset Council secures refund for faulty recycling bags"},"content":{"rendered":"

A council has said that it has been given a refund by a company that supplied thousands of faulty household recycling bags.<\/b><\/p>\n

Residents in the North Somerset Council area were issued with red bags for their plastic and metal waste in March, following a successful trial in November 2024 that aimed to boost recycling.<\/p>\n

But there were complaints from residents as many of the bags were found to have faded in the sun and were “falling apart at the seams”. <\/a><\/p>\n

Councillor Annemieke Waite said the unnamed company had admitted responsibility for the issues. She added that the authority had reached a “very good agreement” with the supplier and the cost of the faulty bags would be refunded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council has said that it has been given a refund by a company that supplied thousands of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-678050","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\/115849125696462602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678050","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=678050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}