{"id":248088,"date":"2025-11-06T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248088\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:34:09","slug":"newquay-pupils-help-recycle-dumped-polystyrene-bodyboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248088\/","title":{"rendered":"Newquay pupils help recycle dumped polystyrene bodyboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">School pupils have helped deconstruct dozens of the discarded and broken polystyrene bodyboards for them to be safely recycled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 40 children at Newquay Junior Academy and volunteers took part in the workshop called Bodyboard Breakdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karl Fice-Thomson, who runs rockpool tours, said about 17,000 bodyboards had been collected from beaches in Newquay in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I&#8217;m shining my UV torch in the rockpools, I&#8217;m seeing all the remnants of these little polystyrene balls absolutely everywhere,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"School pupils have helped deconstruct dozens of the discarded and broken polystyrene bodyboards for them to be safely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-248088","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\/248088","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=248088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}