{"id":5231,"date":"2014-12-17T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T09:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2014-12-17T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T09:03:50","slug":"an-idea-from-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5231","title":{"rendered":"An idea from Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m indebted to <a href=\"http:\/\/eastonandlawrencehill.org.uk\/\">Up Our Street<\/a> for the picture below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5232\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/12\/envirocrime.jpg\" alt=\"fly-tipping covered in Environmental Crime Scene tape\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/12\/envirocrime.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/12\/envirocrime-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture courtesy of Up Our Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It shows fly-tipping somewhere in Sheffield covered in tape bearing the wording &#8220;<em>Enviro-crime scene<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The tape is being used in Sheffield and Rotherham in Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/93699\/rotherham-council-s-csi-teams-declare-war-on-junk.aspx\">According to the Rotherham Advertiser<\/a>, the tape is being used to help make the public aware of the problem of illegal rubbish dumping.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mandatory council spokesperson quoted by the Advertiser, use of the tape &#8220;lets residents know that the council has responded and reassures the public that the council is aware of the items and that they will soon be removed.  <\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has also been our experience that once people realise that the council is on top of the matter it encourages residents to let us know who has been causing the problem. <\/p>\n<p>It also helps the cleaning team know that the item has been fully checked for evidence that could be used in prosecutions and indicates that it is ready to be removed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can we get hold of some of this tape for Bristol&#8217;s BS5 area?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m indebted to Up Our Street for the picture below. It shows fly-tipping somewhere in Sheffield covered in tape bearing the wording &#8220;Enviro-crime scene&#8220;. The tape is being used in Sheffield and Rotherham in Yorkshire. According to the Rotherham Advertiser, the tape is being used to help make the public aware of the problem of [&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":[40,33,20,38],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2","tag-tidybs5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","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=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5235,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}