{"id":15476,"date":"2016-01-09T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15476"},"modified":"2016-01-09T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T15:10:00","slug":"recycling-christmas-trees-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15476","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Christmas Trees in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010902.jpg\" alt=\"Recycling Christmas Trees\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday the Christmas lights were removed from Bury Street, and the Market Place Christmas Tree was cut up into pieces.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010901.jpg\" alt=\"Recycling Christmas Trees\" \/><br \/>\nToday people brought their Christmas trees to the Market Place to have them recycled, along with the Market Place tree.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010905.jpg\" alt=\"Recycling Christmas Trees\" \/><br \/>\nThe trees are shredded by Town Council outdoor staff, using equipment lent by TVF. The TVF Hire Centre is along Audlett Drive now, and no longer along Ock Street.<\/p>\n<p>The mix of woodchip and pine needles can be used on paths such as the Ock Valley Walk by the Green Gym.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010904.jpg\" alt=\"Recycling Christmas Trees\" \/><br \/>\nThe young tree in the foreground will be re-potted, and put in a quiet corner of the old cemetery, and could well see another Christmas Day in 350 days time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Christmas lights were removed from Bury Street, and the Market Place Christmas Tree was cut up into pieces. Today people brought their Christmas trees to the Market Place to have them recycled, along with the Market Place tree. The trees are shredded by Town Council outdoor staff, using equipment lent by TVF. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476","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=15476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}