{"id":298204,"date":"2026-02-23T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298204\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:05:07","slug":"hertfordshire-farmer-receives-40000-to-remove-fly-tipped-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298204\/","title":{"rendered":"Hertfordshire farmer receives \u00a340,000 to remove fly-tipped waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency is not legally responsible or funded for clearing waste, although it can act in exceptional circumstances, such as when there is a risk of fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Archie Ford, who set up the fundraiser, said all the money raised would be given to the farmer with the exception of a 2.9% fee collected by the donation website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added he would give the farmer any money that continued to be raised until 18 March, which was the earliest date he could close the online fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a message to donors, Ford wrote: &#8220;This could not have been achieved without your help and support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thank you so much again, your generosity has been truly inspiring.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Environment Agency is not legally responsible or funded for clearing waste, although it can act in exceptional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-298204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}