{"id":4441,"date":"2014-07-03T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2014-09-28T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T14:54:03","slug":"talking-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4441","title":{"rendered":"Talking rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"

One perennial problem in the Easton district of Bristol where I live is fly-tipping, the illegal dumping of waste.<\/p>\n

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Disgraceful! Trade & other waste dumped by communal bin for household waste in Stapleton Road, Easton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some areas – such as Stapleton Road (see above picture) – have persistent problems and last night I gave a short presentation at the latest Easton & Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Forum<\/a> meeting to try and encourage other residents and those who work in the area to get involved and make Easton a tidier place.<\/p>\n

I’m pleased to say I received whole-hearted support from local councillor Marg Hickman<\/a>, who is equally concerned about the amount of litter on the streets (are fly-tipping and littering related; does one attract the other? Ed.<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Flytipping can be reported online using the council’s dedicated report form<\/a>. Some people use Twitter to do so too, whilst for those with a smartphone various third party applications are available, such as My Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If anyone does draw attention to fly-tipping or litter on Twitter, you might like to add the hashtag #tidybs5<\/a>. If you live elsewhere in Bristol you might like to adapt the #tidybs* hashtag, replacing the asterisk with the first figure of your postcode.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I did learn prior to the Neighbourhood Forum meeting that persistence pays off: via an email from the city council I learnt that several traders on Stapleton Road are or have been served with fixed penalty notices for fly-tipping by enforcement officers. It’s a start, but I get the impression that fly-tipping will be as hard to eradicate as a Hammer<\/a> horror film vampire.<\/p>\n

Bristol will be European Green Capital<\/a> in 2015. Unless it sorts out fly-tipping and other environmental problems in Easton and the city’s other less prosperous areas (like the plague of flies<\/a>, dust<\/a> and other industrial pollution in Avonmouth<\/a>. Ed.<\/em>), the accolade should be amended to read European Greenwash<\/strong><\/em> Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One perennial problem in the Easton district of Bristol where I live is fly-tipping, the illegal dumping of waste. Some areas – such as Stapleton Road (see above picture) – have persistent problems and last night I gave a short presentation at the latest Easton & Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Forum meeting to try and encourage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,15,34],"tags":[40,36,37,20,8,35,38],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-oddities","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-greenwashing","tag-politics-2","tag-rant","tag-social-media","tag-tidybs5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441","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=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}