{"id":1606,"date":"2006-09-29T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T16:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2006-09-29T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T16:28:03","slug":"what-is-the-value-of-a-free-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"What is the value of a free newspaper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking to a friend yesterday about all of the free newspaper distributors in London. <\/p>\n<p>(For those unfamiliar with the backstory &#8211; Metro, distributed from racks in Tube stations in the morning, has been joined by two evening freebies thelondonpaper and Londonlite, while the Evening Standard now has a free version handed out at lunchtime. All of which means if you pass by Euston Station, as I do quite often, you could collect enough newspapers in one day to have destroyed a small forest.)<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen any overall figures, but the Tube is <a href = \"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/5363818.stm\">certainly seeing the effect<\/a>, to the tune of a 43 per cent increase in newspaper waste.<\/p>\n<p>There really is a problem that these days material objects are so cheap, they are literally given away&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking to a friend yesterday about all of the free newspaper distributors in London. (For those unfamiliar with the backstory &#8211; Metro, distributed from racks in Tube stations in the morning, has been joined by two evening freebies thelondonpaper and Londonlite, while the Evening Standard now has a free version handed out at lunchtime. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}