{"id":69270,"date":"2025-08-15T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69270\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:37:11","slug":"rubbish-the-group-clearing-tonnes-of-litter-from-nis-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69270\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubbish: The group clearing tonnes of litter from NI&#8217;s waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s wellington boots, black bags, bin liners, litter pickers in your hand. right into getting into a wetsuit, getting on to a boat and swimming into a bay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the area in which they work is &#8220;the beautiful Causeway coast&#8221;, the landscape is &#8220;blighted by rubbish and plastic bags&#8221; and the problem is getting &#8220;worse and worse and worse&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the easiest part of the job, he said, is getting people to help out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They will turn up on a cold, miserable January morning to the river bank when everybody else is in their bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the years they&#8217;ve had around 550 different volunteers who have helped out ,ranging in age from nine to 89.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We come from a very broad church.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s wellington boots, black bags, bin liners, litter pickers in your hand. right into getting into a wetsuit,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-69270","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\/69270","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=69270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}