{"id":22369,"date":"2019-04-13T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22369"},"modified":"2019-04-13T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T20:29:07","slug":"litter-pick-by-river-thames-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22369","title":{"rendered":"Litter Pick by River Thames in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19041301.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Poppy Appeal\" \/><br \/>\nVolunteers carried out a litter pick along the River Thames in Abingdon today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19041306.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Poppy Appeal\" \/><br \/>\nIt was organised by the AbiBinit! the Abingdon Litter Picking Initiative and supported by&nbsp;Abingdon Cuts Plastic and the Kingfisher Canoe Club in conjunction with Surfers Against Sewage.<\/p>\n<p>The event saw 60 people, including children, turning up to tackle the issue of litter along the River Thames.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19041302.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Poppy Appeal\" \/><br \/>\nMegan is seen here with her bags of rubbish picked from Culham to Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19041305.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Poppy Appeal\" \/><br \/>\nRubbish collected included seven traffic cones, three bicycles, a shopping trolley, a street lamp, 96 glass bottles, 13 bags of plastic waste, 75 bags of general waste, and fly tipping &#8211; lots of it!.<\/p>\n<p>Events like this raise awareness about how much plastic and other harmful rubbish end up in the River Thames and along it&#8217;s banks. <b>Bin it!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/friendsofabingdon.org.uk\/civic-community\/abibinit-litter-picking\/\">McDonald\u2019s Litter Pick<\/a> for young people tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers carried out a litter pick along the River Thames in Abingdon today. It was organised by the AbiBinit! the Abingdon Litter Picking Initiative and supported by&nbsp;Abingdon Cuts Plastic and the Kingfisher Canoe Club in conjunction with Surfers Against Sewage. The event saw 60 people, including children, turning up to tackle the issue of litter [&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-22369","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\/22369","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=22369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}