{"id":23550,"date":"2019-11-14T23:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23550"},"modified":"2019-11-14T23:25:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:25:43","slug":"mayors-plastic-free-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23550","title":{"rendered":"Mayor&#8217;s Plastic Free Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111408.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor's Plastic Reception\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Roysse Room this evening there was a reception given by the Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames for some of the people who have helped Abingdon on the way to becoming a Plastic Free town. This included businesses who can display the Plastic Free Champions Logo. <\/p>\n<p>The council had also done their part as had the Abingdon Cuts Plastic group.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111411.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor's Plastic Reception\" \/><br \/>\nThere were are also schools. Young people have taken a lead in trying to save the planet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111409.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor's Plastic Reception\" \/><br \/>\nDisplays at the reception included the winning entries in the Schools Anti-Litter Poster Competition.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111410.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor's Plastic Reception\" \/><br \/>\nAnne Smart did a presentation about what had been done so far and what still needs to happen, and The Mayor of Abingdon &#8211; Cllr Charlie Birks gave a speech thanking everybody who had made their own effort to cut down on single use plastic so we don&#8217;t produce the waste in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Roysse Room this evening there was a reception given by the Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames for some of the people who have helped Abingdon on the way to becoming a Plastic Free town. This included businesses who can display the Plastic Free Champions Logo. The council had also done their part as had 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":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550","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=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}