{"id":27267,"date":"2015-11-09T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=27267"},"modified":"2015-11-09T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T11:35:22","slug":"a-local-group-are-helping-to-clean-up-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/11\/09\/a-local-group-are-helping-to-clean-up-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Local group helping to clean up Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local group sustainability project is working hard to keep Cardiff environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental Champions is a partnership between various local organisations that has been in operation since 2011. It has undertaken many projects to promote sustainability around Cardiff, such as beach cleans and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiffmet.ac.uk\/news\/Pages\/Cardiff-Met-students-join-environmental-champions-for-litter-pick.aspx\">litter picks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of rubbish is dropped on the floor every day in Cardiff<\/p>\n<p>In January 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.gov.uk\/ENG\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Cardiff City Council<\/a> reported that litter had reduced by 7% in the past 6 months, indicating that the group is working.<\/p>\n<p>Future events planned by the group include a trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viridor.co.uk\/\">Viridor ERF Waste Management Centre <\/a>on the 27\u00a0and 28\u00a0of October.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Lavington, the volunteering coordinator of Environmental Champions says,\u00a0\u201cThe aim of the project is to encourage people to reduce waste and improve sustainability\u2026It provides a source of information for new and existing members of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Champions are educating people on how to be green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":27381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10],"tags":[256,4781,628],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-27267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","category-uncategorized","tag-environment","tag-environmental-champions","tag-recycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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