{"id":21079,"date":"2018-08-25T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T20:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21079"},"modified":"2018-08-25T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T20:58:58","slug":"litter-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21079","title":{"rendered":"Litter Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18082010.jpg\" alt=\"Litter Pick\" \/><br \/>\nI joined Helen on a litter pick near Reynolds Way this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Some people stopped to talk about litter. &#8220;<i>You have a thankless job there<\/i>,&#8221; one lady told me. &#8220;<i>People just throw their empty takeaway out of the car window and don&#8217;t take it home.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18082011.jpg\" alt=\"Litter Pick\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a lot of litter thrown into the hedge next to the <i>Open 7 Days<\/i> Supermarket. Helen has already arranged for a couple of&nbsp; new bins to be put in useful places. Removing this hedge and replacing it with some wisteria and a bin would also help.<\/p>\n<p>There were other litter hot spots &#8211; areas down small lanes, and round corners where empty beer and cider bottles and cans still hung around after the drinkers had gone. <\/p>\n<p>The Next&nbsp;AbiBinit! Litter Picking Initiative is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/friendsofabingdon.org.uk\/civic-community\/abibinit\/\">Saturday 29th September<\/a>. There is also a big Spring Clean all round Abingdon in the Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined Helen on a litter pick near Reynolds Way this morning. Some people stopped to talk about litter. &#8220;You have a thankless job there,&#8221; one lady told me. &#8220;People just throw their empty takeaway out of the car window and don&#8217;t take it home.&#8221; There was a lot of litter thrown into the hedge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079","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=21079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}