{"id":19254,"date":"2018-02-16T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=19254"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T11:15:58","slug":"grave-concerns-over-glass-recycling-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/grave-concerns-over-glass-recycling-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grave concerns&#8217; over glass recycling plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elderly people could find it hard to cope with changes to glass recycling in Cardiff according to a local councillor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council is suggesting householders should be given an extra box for glass. Currently all recyclable waste goes in one bag.<\/p>\n<p>Rhiwbina and Ely would be pilot areas for the scheme. But Conservative councillor Jayne Cowan, is worried boxes will be too heavy for some people.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;I have got grave concerns. Rhiwbina has the oldest population in the city. They&#8217;re going to expect people to carry these large receptacles full of bottles throughout the house and any distance. I don&#8217;t think the council have thought this through properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Cardiff Council spokesman said they had put aside money for &#8220;proposals within the waste strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A decision on whether the pilot will go ahead is expected to be made next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh Government has set councils a target of a 70% recycling rate by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Other south Wales councils including Newport and Bridgend already have glass separation schemes in place. Both have a higher recycling rate than Cardiff according to Welsh Government information.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Rosser from Friends of the Earth Cymru said separating glass has many benefits:\u00a0&#8220;The better that we separate our waste at home, the better recycling can go on at centres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He explained this would create higher-quality recycled glass products which would raise more money for councils to invest in services.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff resident Stephen Sweetman is an avid recycler but said bags would be better than boxes.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I love recycling. The idea that stuff isn&#8217;t going to landfill really pleases me. If they&#8217;re going to have glass separated we should have a bag similar to the one used for garden waste. They&#8217;re really tough, really hard to rip so if glass did get broken the council workers still aren&#8217;t at risk. It would be far better, much lighter and probably cheaper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly people could find it hard to cope with changes to glass recycling in Cardiff according to a local councillor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[26,1472,634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19254"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19442,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254\/revisions\/19442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}