{"id":27691,"date":"2021-08-07T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27691"},"modified":"2021-08-07T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:40:00","slug":"brown-garden-waste-bin-collection-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27691","title":{"rendered":"Brown (garden waste) bin collection suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021080705.jpg\" alt=\"Brown Bins suspended\" \/><br \/>\n&#8216;A press release earlier this week said <em>&#8216;South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils have taken the difficult decision to activate their business continuity plan and suspend their garden waste collections.&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The councils\u2019 bin crews will be prioritising the collection of food waste, recycling and general waste collections following government guidelines in a bid to reduce the disruption to waste collections.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not everybody has got the message. These shots along the Oxford Road in Abingdon were this Saturday morning and the collection should have been Thursday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021080706.jpg\" alt=\"Brown Bins suspended\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a delay to the collection of recycled and garden waste two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The disruption is due to the ongoing issues of a shortage of HGV drivers who are needed to drive the councils\u2019 waste collection vehicles. This is a national issue, not just affecting the districts.&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It could be down to the need to self-isolate.<\/p>\n<p>The council will review the situation towards the end of August before providing an update. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A press release earlier this week said &#8216;South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils have taken the difficult decision to activate their business continuity plan and suspend their garden waste collections.&#8217; &#8216;The councils\u2019 bin crews will be prioritising the collection of food waste, recycling and general waste collections following government guidelines in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}