{"id":395,"date":"2008-01-06T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2009-01-25T21:54:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:54:13","slug":"bolton-recycling-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/bolton-recycling-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Recycling Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bolton Council make recycling collections on a fortnightly basis. Addresses are assigned to a Blue or a Yellow week. You can check which week you are on at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sort-it.bolton.gov.uk\/\">Sort-it website<\/a>, but it fails to tell you one very important piece of information: which weeks are blue and which are yellow. They do include a calendar hidden inside the free council propaganda newspaper &#8216;Bolton Scene&#8217;, but many people will have binned this as soon as it dropped through the door and therefore lost the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>When we moved in last year, I emailed the council to ask which weeks were which and they very helpfully emailed back a well formatted excel spreadsheet showing blue days. This begs the question why this spreadsheet is not available for download on the Sort-It website.<\/p>\n<p>Here, therefore, is a calendar for 2008 showing blue and yellow weeks.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/BoltonRecycleCal2008.png' alt='Bolton Recycling Calendar for 2008 showing blue and yellow weeks' \/><\/div>\n<p>I have since found links to poor quality scanned PDFs on Bolton Council&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolton.gov.uk\/pls\/portal92\/docs\/51766.PDF\">blue<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolton.gov.uk\/pls\/portal92\/docs\/51767.PDF\">yellow<\/a> calendars on the normal council website. Why these are missing from the Sort-It site is still a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolton Council make recycling collections on a fortnightly basis. Addresses are assigned to a Blue or a Yellow week. You can check which week you are on at their Sort-it website, but it fails to tell you one very important piece of information: which weeks are blue and which are yellow. They do include a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,27,91],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bolton","tag-council","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}