{"id":6450,"date":"2015-09-20T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T09:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2015-09-20T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T09:22:40","slug":"dump-the-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6450","title":{"rendered":"Dump the Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that the communities of South Bristol are also getting fed up with fly-tipping too and want the long-promised Hartcliffe recycling centre opened as they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/Protesters-believe-Hartcliffe-recycling-centre\/story-27587624-detail\/story.html\">believe<\/a> it could help cure this local environmental blight.<\/p>\n<p>Local campaigners have now made a video to assist their efforts in securing this much-needed facility (<em>at present Bristol has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.gov.uk\/page\/bins-recycling-and-street-cleaning\/tips-and-recycling-centres\">2 main council-run recycling facilities<\/a>, both north of the River Avon and miles away from Hartcliffe. Ed.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_35476\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CRLa4JtNpPw?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"Dump The Mayor\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>However, there is one obstacle in their way: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-33866327\">opposition of Mayor George Ferguson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One would have thought that with the amount of waste produced by the city increasing and recycling rates declining, Bristol&#8217;s most senior elected official would leap at any chance of reversing this during <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/europeangreencapital\/winning-cities\/2015-bristol\/\">Bristol&#8217;s year as the alleged European Green Capital<\/a>, but it seems like he refuses to do anything at all to help improve the city&#8217;s poor, deprived and blighted communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that the communities of South Bristol are also getting fed up with fly-tipping too and want the long-promised Hartcliffe recycling centre opened as they believe it could help cure this local environmental blight. Local campaigners have now made a video to assist their efforts in securing this much-needed facility (at present Bristol [&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":[40,36,37,38],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-greenwashing","tag-tidybs5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","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=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6454,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/6454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}