{"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":"2019-02-01T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:17:23","slug":"closure-of-bessemer-recycling-centre-causes-frustration-among-cardiff-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.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><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCardiff 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.<br \/>\nAnthony 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.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s clearly frustrating for people that are turning up with the intention to recycle.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe 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.<br \/>\nResidents became more frustrated when earlier this week the council released figures saying that only 69% of rubbish is recycled.<br \/>\nOn Twitter, people were complaining about the system not encouraging them to recycle.<br \/>\nCardiff Council tweeted only that the closure was &#8220;due to operational reasons&#8221; and have failed to give CJS News any more information.<br \/>\nCouncillor 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.<br \/>\n&#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;<br \/>\nThere is no indication when the centre will re-open.<br \/>\n&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":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,18],"tags":[38,381,382,383],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-slider-story","tag-cardiff-council","tag-green-party","tag-recycling","tag-recycling-centre"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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