{"id":61453,"date":"2015-09-14T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7c37de292c424b273d22d805a13b53e0"},"modified":"2015-09-14T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:36:07","slug":"press-release-partners-make-clean-sweep-of-north-east-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=61453","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Partners make clean sweep of North East beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Environment Agency staff joined forces with partners to carry out a clean sweep of a Northumberland beach. <\/p>\n<p>They joined Northumberland Wildlife Trust to carry out a litter pick at Druridge Bay \u2013 one of the county\u2019s most popular beaches \u2013 on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Northumberland County Council also joined in, with staff removing the rubbish collected at the end of the day. <\/p>\n<p>Environmental Monitoring Officer Laura Corrigan organised the event. She said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Marine litter is a real problem for our local marine wildlife on the Northumberland Coast, with hundreds of species accidently eating or becoming entangled in litter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Druridge Bay is a beautiful area of Northumberland and extremely popular with families and walkers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We work closely with our partners in each of our different roles to ensure it stays that way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">By putting aside a few hours to carry out a sweep of the beach together, it ensures it\u2019s clean and tidy and minimises the impact on the environment and wildlife.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Hopefully it will encourage beach users to take note and make sure they dispose of their litter responsibly, or better still, reduce, reuse or recycle where possible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Much of the litter collected was plastic bottles, carrier bags and cigarette butts, which can have detrimental effects on marine wildlife and impact on water quality. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Litter pick benefits wildlife and visitors at Druridge Bay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}