{"id":42727,"date":"2025-08-04T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42727\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:30:09","slug":"singer-asks-cambridgeshire-councils-to-stop-sending-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42727\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer asks Cambridgeshire councils to stop sending waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A singer has uploaded a song to YouTube that called for two councils to stop sending waste 400 miles away and recycle it closer to home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dry recycling from Cambridgeshire has been transported to Newry, Northern Ireland, since March by waste management firm Re-Gen, after it won a contract with the Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Folk singer Colum Sands, from Northern Ireland, produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xEEcturLw2Q\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Time for Talking Rubbish, external<\/a>, as a &#8220;song-letter&#8221; to the councils in which he asks if they would &#8220;store leaking rubbish all along the River Cam?&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the song, which has had more than 1,000 views, Mr Sands says &#8220;throwing rubbish somewhere else does not achieve the end&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A singer has uploaded a song to YouTube that called for two councils to stop sending waste 400&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-42727","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\/42727","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=42727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}