{"id":627191,"date":"2026-06-08T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627191\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:06:10","slug":"peterborough-litter-pickers-fund-and-install-new-bins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627191\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough litter pickers fund and install new bins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peterborough Litter Wombles was formed five years ago and now has about 500 active volunteers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Machin said the group had collected more than 15,000 bags of litter since then, but claimed that was &#8220;only the tip of the iceberg&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he was aware of funding challenges facing local authorities but added he would &#8220;love the council to do more&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen Eastman, founder of another local group called the Independent Review Committee on Debris, praised the latest initiative and said other parts of Peterborough would benefit from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Wiggin, a councillor with a responsibility for the environment, said any new bins would be &#8220;subject to costs and installation requirements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Alongside this we are focusing on developing educational activities, including organising regular litter picking activities at schools, to try and reduce the problem of litter occurring in the first place,&#8221; the Liberal Democrat councillor added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peterborough Litter Wombles was formed five years ago and now has about 500 active volunteers. Machin said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627191","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\/627191","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=627191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}