{"id":29416,"date":"2026-03-06T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=29416"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:51:29","slug":"the-big-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2026\/03\/06\/the-big-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Clean Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the turn of Clarkston to take part in the Big Clean Up and Cart Mill were very keen to take part. We all popped our hi-vis vests on and went out with litter pickers and bin bags to clear up round Cart Mill. We were really sad to see so much litter spoiling our lovely area so we got very busy picking it up. After a morning of litter picking we had filled two bin bags!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29417\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2026\/03\/06\/the-big-clean-up\/9eb953b0-78cc-4374-8e3f-4e0bbbf9f98d\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2026\/03\/06115038\/9EB953B0-78CC-4374-8E3F-4E0BBBF9F98D-rotated.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"945,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad mini 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1772796420&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0014619883040936&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" 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class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2026\/03\/06115059\/279B717A-5B50-4388-93C4-EBE4BD865FD9-rotated.jpeg 945w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2026\/03\/06115059\/279B717A-5B50-4388-93C4-EBE4BD865FD9-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2026\/03\/06115059\/279B717A-5B50-4388-93C4-EBE4BD865FD9-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Article 24: I have  the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the turn of Clarkston to take part in the Big Clean Up and Cart Mill were very keen to take part. We all popped our hi-vis vests on and went out with litter pickers and bin bags to clear up round Cart Mill. We were really sad to see so much litter spoiling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2026\/03\/06\/the-big-clean-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Big Clean Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29422,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29416\/revisions\/29422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}