{"id":181514,"date":"2025-10-06T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181514\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:12:07","slug":"900kg-of-plastic-collected-in-dorset-sent-to-be-recycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181514\/","title":{"rendered":"900kg of plastic collected in Dorset sent to be recycled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project is a community interest company based in Wyke, founded by local environmentalists Jane Fuhrmann and Dave Taylor.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The organisation&#8217;s main objective is \u2018to create community-based projects aimed at reducing the pollution from litter in our seas and on our beaches.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Some of the waste that was sent to be recycled(Image: Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As part of this mission they send recyclable materials such as discarded plastics and damaged fishing gear to a recycling facility in Exeter to ensure the products do not go to landfill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They recently sent 900kg of waste to the facility &#8211; bringing the total to date to 13.5 tonnes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Some of the waste that was sent to be recycled(Image: Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for the Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project said: &#8220;On recycling day, 900kg of plastic waste sent off to Exeter City Materials Reclamation Facility (MRF) to be recycled by our recycling partners Odyssey Innovation Ltd.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This trip was a mix of beach clean rope, damaged fish boxes, end of life gill net, broken beach toys and mixed hard plastics from beach cleans.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This takes our total recycling through the Hub to 13.5 tonnes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Thanks to Weymouth Harbour and Rockfish Weymouth for supporting the project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project is a community interest company based in Wyke, founded by local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-181514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}