{"id":519148,"date":"2026-04-08T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519148\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:03:07","slug":"weymouths-new-binforgreenseas-aims-to-tackle-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519148\/","title":{"rendered":"Weymouth&#8217;s new BinForGreenSeas aims to tackle plastic pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new green bin designed to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans has been set up in Weymouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The town council teamed up with marine conservation charity the GreenSeas Trust to install a bin designed to raise awareness about the impact of plastic on sea life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new Bin for Green Seas is shaped like an orange and white lifebuoy with a small hole for people to dispose of their plastic bottles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Throw marine life a lifeline&#8221; is the tagline written on the bins along with pictures of sea creatures, including a dolphin, turtle and jellyfish, swimming with a plastic bag and bottle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new green bin designed to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans has been set up in Weymouth.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519148","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=519148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}