{"id":15207,"date":"2025-03-02T12:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T12:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15207"},"modified":"2025-03-03T13:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T13:47:11","slug":"march-litter-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15207","title":{"rendered":"March litter pick"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Yesterday saw the regular monthly community litter pick in Bristol&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barton_Hill,_Bristol\">Barton Hill<\/a>, which takes place on the first Saturday of each month.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/alex_th.jpg\" alt=\"Alex gets stuck in. Image courtesy of Eric Green\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15222\" \/>On a sunny but initially cool morning four of us turned up and spent an hour and a quarter clearing up Ducie Road and its council-owned car park, a regular dumping ground for fly-tippers, as well as a convenient repository for spent catering size nitrous oxide canisters.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The team dismantled one fly tip and bagged it up for collection by Bristol Waste along with our &#8216;<em>swag<\/em>&#8216;, which will be collected &#8211; hopefully speedily &#8211; by <a href=\"https:\/\/bristolwastecompany.co.uk\/\">Bristol Waste<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_15223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15223\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/litter-pick-1-3-25-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Steve, Alex and Ronit with the fruits of our litter pick\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/litter-pick-1-3-25-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/litter-pick-1-3-25-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/litter-pick-1-3-25-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/litter-pick-1-3-25-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/litter-pick-1-3-25-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex, Steve and Ronit with the fruits of our litter pick.<br \/> Image courtesy of Eric Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Afterwards we retired to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wellspringsettlement.org.uk\/\">Wellspring Settlement<\/a> for light refreshments.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Thanks to my fellow pickers for tidying BS5.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>See you next month on the 5th!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw the regular monthly community litter pick in Bristol&#8217;s Barton Hill, which takes place on the first Saturday of each month. On a sunny but initially cool morning four of us turned up and spent an hour and a quarter clearing up Ducie Road and its council-owned car park, a regular dumping ground for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[40,36,38],"class_list":["post-15207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-tidybs5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15207"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15233,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15207\/revisions\/15233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}