{"id":690690,"date":"2026-01-12T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690690\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:41:11","slug":"recycling-centre-in-leighton-buzzard-closes-for-up-to-eight-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690690\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling centre in Leighton Buzzard closes for up to eight weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority said residents could book extra slots via its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk\/info\/304\/household_waste_recycling_centres_tidy_tips\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online booking system, external<\/a> at alternative sites, the nearest being at Thorn Turn, Dunstable and Ampthill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wye said &#8220;people should be able to continue to carry on recycling&#8221; as there are four other recycling centres in Central Bedfordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The council website also has other ideas for reusing, repairing and repurposing unwanted items which people might find to be even more convenient,&#8221; she added<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents will continue to receive their kerbside collections, which can be checked on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk\/info\/2\/waste_and_recycling\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">council&#8217;s website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The authority said residents could book extra slots via its online booking system, external at alternative sites, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-690690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115881239314770191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690690","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=690690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}