{"id":8019,"date":"2013-01-06T01:41:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T00:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2013-01-06T01:41:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T00:41:57","slug":"record-number-choose-to-recycle-christmas-trees-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8019","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Christmas Trees on the Market Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13010605.jpg\" alt=\"recycle Christmas Trees Locally\" \/><br \/>\nThe lights were taken off the Market Place Christmas Tree. Branches were then lopped off and fed into a wood chipper.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13010606.jpg\" alt=\"recycle Christmas Trees Locally\" \/><br \/>\nSoon all that remained was a spiny trunk.<\/p>\n<p>The Abingdon public brought their own Christmas Trees.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13010607.jpg\" alt=\"recycle Christmas Trees Locally\" \/><br \/>\nSome dragged their trees, others brought them by car.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13010602.jpg\" alt=\"recycle Christmas Trees Locally\" \/><br \/>\nThe Town Council Team then fed each tree into the chipper.<\/p>\n<p>140 trees were recycled on the Market Place in January 2011. By January 2012 that number had jumped to 164.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13010603.jpg\" alt=\"recycle Christmas Trees Locally\" \/><br \/>\nThis year 133 trees had already been recycled by midday. That number had jumped to 192 with ten minutes to go. The team were intending to stop at 3:00 pm but then there was a late rush of Christmas Trees.<\/p>\n<p>The team stayed a little late by which time they had recycled 205 trees. Those tree chippings will help pave walks on the Ock Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lights were taken off the Market Place Christmas Tree. Branches were then lopped off and fed into a wood chipper. Soon all that remained was a spiny trunk. The Abingdon public brought their own Christmas Trees. Some dragged their trees, others brought them by car. The Town Council Team then fed each tree into [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","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=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}