{"id":9377,"date":"2013-06-10T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2023-07-21T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:45:30","slug":"another-successful-spring-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/another-successful-spring-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Successful Spring Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Another Successful Spring Cleanup<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Monday, June 10, 2013<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twenty-two volunteers turned out on June 8th for the annual &#8220;spring cleanup&#8221; of a small section of the Sugarloaf Path near the Robin Hood Bay landfill site. The group collected more than 40 large bags of litter, everything from chip bags to Styrofoam packing material which had blown into the area over the winter.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, this was a modest haul compared with tonnes of plastic bags removed in earlier years of the campaign to eliminate the &#8220;plastic forest.&#8221; ECTA and the City of St. John&#8217;s have partnered on this project since 2005, when hikers had to literally wade through plastic for a short distance on the newly upgraded path. After this year&#8217;s &#8220;tidy up,&#8221; there is virtually no litter in sight of passing hikers, a remarkable success story.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shelley Pardy and other staffers from the Waste Management Division of the City of St. John&#8217;s handled logistics for a safe, sunny and enjoyable morning, while path custodian Mark Graesser provided on-site leadership for the outing on behalf of ECTA.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Article by: <\/span><b>Mark Graesser<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo captions and credits:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1. A volunteer reaches for plastic under trees near the Sugarloaf Path <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Mark Graesser)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2. Danny Goodyear and Bess Norman haul the garbage they collected from the trail. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Mark Graesser)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3. The volunteers and the 40 bags of litter we collected in about an hour <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(City of St. John&#8217;s)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4. Knee deep in plastic (2008 clean-up) <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Janny Van Houwelingen)<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5. Volunteers and what they collected (much more than 40 bags) in one of our 2008 cleanups <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Mark Graesser)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9378 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SpringCleanup_June2013-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9379 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SpringCleanup_June2013-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9380 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SpringCleanup_June2013-2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9381 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SpringCleanup_June2013-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9382 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SpringCleanup_June2013-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/214;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Successful Spring Cleanup Monday, June 10, 2013 Twenty-two volunteers turned out on June 8th for the annual &#8220;spring cleanup&#8221; of a small section of the Sugarloaf Path near the Robin Hood Bay landfill site. The group collected more than 40 large bags of litter, everything from chip bags to Styrofoam packing material which had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-59","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10061,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions\/10061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}