{"id":22452,"date":"2019-02-01T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22452"},"modified":"2019-02-01T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:28:57","slug":"closure-of-bessemer-recycling-centre-causes-frustration-among-cardiff-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/closure-of-bessemer-recycling-centre-causes-frustration-among-cardiff-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff residents frustrated as recycling centre shuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The short-notice closure of Cardiff&#8217;s Bessemer Close recycling centre has drawn complaints from local people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cardiff council has shut the centre for at least two days, with no notice or detailed reason, prompting complaints it&#8217;s not encouraging people to recycle waste.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Slaughter, who is a member of the Green Party said: &#8220;It&#8217;s disappointing to hear it has been closed, without knowing the reasons why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s clearly frustrating for people that are turning up with the intention to recycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the council might have valid reasons, but it&#8217;s frustrating for people who want to do the right thing and feel local authorities aren&#8217;t supporting them.<\/p>\n<p>Residents became more frustrated when earlier this week the council released figures saying that only 69% of rubbish is recycled.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, people were complaining about the system not encouraging them to recycle.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council tweeted only that the closure was &#8220;due to operational reasons&#8221; and have failed to give CJS News any more information.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Michael Michael, who is the cabinet member for clean streets, recycling and environment said: &#8220;People like to point out what goes wrong\u00a0 but they don&#8217;t say what has gone right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People need to be educated on recycling and on what we are doing, if centres are closed or moved to different areas it&#8217;s because we are trying to improve the system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is no indication when the centre will re-open.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short-notice closure of Cardiff&#8217;s Bessemer Close recycling centre has drawn complaints from local people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[129,281,246,1143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22452"}],"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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22476,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22452\/revisions\/22476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}