{"id":22561,"date":"2025-04-15T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22561\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:32:10","slug":"volunteers-at-barnes-common-tackle-growing-litter-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22561\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers at Barnes Common tackle growing litter problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Litter pickers at Barnes Common are a small group of people who make a big difference by addressing waste in London\u2019s green spaces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>London has more than double the amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/croydon-fly-tipping-defra-data-borough-breakdown-b1213448.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fly-tipping waste<\/a> in public spaces than the English average, with the number of incidents per 1,000 people totalling 50 compared to 20 in 2023-2024, data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/fly-tipping-in-england\/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england-2023-to-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs<\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the number of illegal waste reported to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/life\/20032025-richmond-the-most-physically-active-borough-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond Council<\/a> increased by more than 1200 compared to 2022-2023.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of Barnes Common Mike Hildesley said the largest problem is litter from road users.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike said: \u201cOur biggest challenges now are along roadsides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/entertainment\/16042024-barnes-classical-music-festival-celebrates-legends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnes Common<\/a> conservationists believe that plastic recycling, which was a long-advocated solution, is not actually viable.<\/p>\n<p>Instead they are advocating for work to make green spaces SLOWER (Sustainable, Local, Organic, Work together, Environmental, Respectful).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cost of litter collection and disposal for London\u2019s parks and green spaces alone is estimated to be \u00a314.8million per annum, based on results from a recent survey by <a href=\"https:\/\/parksforlondon.org.uk\/resource\/litter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parks for London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond Council has not responded to questions on the volume of litter but they do continue to work closely with Barnes Common.<\/p>\n<p>Watch for the full story.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Featured image credit: John Cameron on Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Litter pickers at Barnes Common are a small group of people who make a big difference by addressing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[14351,748,393,14352,4884,8907,257,16,15,14353],"class_list":{"0":"post-22561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-barnes","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-flytipping","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-litter","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-volunteer-groups"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114343178784666260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}