{"id":7684,"date":"2020-04-20T06:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7684"},"modified":"2020-04-20T06:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:59:51","slug":"ppe-litter-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/04\/20\/ppe-litter-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"PPE litter grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has only barely been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/04\/10\/litter-louts-could-spread-covid-19-throwing-away-plastic-gloves\/\">reported<\/a>, but the levels of PPE litter on the UK's streets seem to have been growing. \u00a0 Even\u00a0<em>Untidy Britain <\/em>is shocked<em>. \u00a0<\/em>You might have thought that\u00a0the pandemic now engulfing the UK would have dramatically reduced the opportunities for littering, but it seems not. \u00a0Discarded PPE is a phenomenon in the USA as well, judging by the media coverage. \u00a0The lesson would seem to be never underestimate the ingenuity of people for littering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has only barely been reported, but the levels of PPE litter on the UK's streets seem to have been growing. \u00a0 Even\u00a0Untidy Britain is shocked. \u00a0You might have thought that\u00a0the pandemic now engulfing the UK would have dramatically reduced...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}