{"id":334369,"date":"2025-08-10T23:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334369\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T23:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:51:10","slug":"londons-disgusting-wet-wipe-island-to-be-removed-as-work-begins-to-excavate-180-tonnes-of-congealed-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334369\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s disgusting &#8216;wet wipe island&#8217; to be removed as work begins to excavate 180 tonnes of congealed waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fleur Anderson, MP for Putney, Southfields, Roehampton and Wandsworth Town, said:\u202f\u201cThis is a huge moment \u2013 after years of campaigning, wet wipe island hopefully is no more. It\u2019s so long overdue and very welcome.\u202fThere was a national outcry at this monstrosity in the Thames \u2013 caused by plastic wet wipes, which cause massive damage to our environment and our sewer systems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fleur Anderson, MP for Putney, Southfields, Roehampton and Wandsworth Town, said:\u202f\u201cThis is a huge moment \u2013 after years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,119781,393,4884,257,856,21011,119780,28889,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-clean-up","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-pollution","14":"tag-river","15":"tag-thames-tideway-tunnel","16":"tag-thames-water","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115007159310749975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334369","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=334369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}