{"id":7899,"date":"2018-01-26T13:50:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7899"},"modified":"2018-01-26T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:50:33","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7899","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"00005_opt\"<\/a>I saw a very disturbing report<\/a> on plastic waste last night.\u00a0 There is plastic waste litter everywhere.\u00a0 This report ranged over the entire UK and I mean the entire UK.\u00a0 It was really shocking.\u00a0 Watch it and you will see.\u00a0 Some Americans on my church homegroup were shocked by the litter in our city, but its really the same everywhere.\u00a0 For my two jobs I cycle down two country lanes and there is both litter and larger stuff dumped all the way along.\u00a0 On one the layby has been sealed off since so much stuff has been dumped.<\/p>\n

There is no excuse for this.\u00a0 Kerbside recycling is much improved (although as the above report makes plain plenty of people are putting recyclable material in the landfill waste streams).\u00a0 Any larger stuff is free to dispose of at the “dump”.\u00a0 Why and what mentality causes people to chuck plastic waste out their car windows is beyond me? (and I’ve nver seen someone do it) but it has to stop.<\/p>\n

There are reasons to see that we can change.\u00a0 Graffiti is a much reduced problem in the UK now than it used to be.\u00a0 As a family we have decided to reduce our plastic use.\u00a0 I will be reporting on this going forward but it seems likely that we will try one method of reduction a month.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw a very disturbing report on plastic waste last night.\u00a0 There is plastic waste litter everywhere.\u00a0 This report ranged over the entire UK and I mean the entire UK.\u00a0 It was really shocking.\u00a0 Watch it and you will see.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,32,1],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-7899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","category-practical-low-carbon-living","category-recycling","category-uncategorized","tag-litter"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week - plastic waste - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7899\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7899\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7899\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week - 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