{"id":2569,"date":"2013-04-11T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2569"},"modified":"2013-11-01T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T22:58:47","slug":"litter-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/litter-picking\/","title":{"rendered":"Litter Picking"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well here comes summer&#8230;. unfortunately it&#39;s basing its appearance on last year&#39;s weather. Rain all evening, and this is a photo of the sun earlier in the day. Not pretty!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sun_1004138314.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The rain did hold off for most of the day, and at lunchtime rather than visit my usual haunts I joined up with some colleagues at work to clear out some of the litter that defaces the local woodland.  This is how it should look.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stump_1004138342.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>But this is what all too often punctuates the landscape.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bottle_1004138326.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As well as bottles, paper, and plastic we cleared old piping, a TV set, loads of broken crockery (!), broken signage  and various unidentifiable bits of circuit board. My favourite (in an ironic sort of way) was this. It&#39;s a wrapper for a deodoriser called &#39;Forest Fresh&#39;.  Someone&#39;s idea of a joke perhaps, or just a symbol of our times: that even in the natural surroundings of woodland we feel the need to &#39;enhance&#39; our environment through artificial means.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wrapper_1004138328.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>More rubbish will, inevitably, accumulate over the coming weeks, but the clearance is a semi-regular activity and not only does it make the place look a little better it removes all sorts of traps and dangers for local wildlife. <\/p>\n<p>It was a good way to spend a lunchtime. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bags_1004138356.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D  and EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[953,952,110],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ecology","tag-litter-picking","tag-woodland","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}