{"id":1888,"date":"2007-02-02T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T10:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2007-02-02T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T10:24:12","slug":"rubbish-in-rubbish-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"Rubbish in, rubbish out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent half of yesterday at a conference on Sustainable Schools, which was as such things usually are a mixture of fascinating stuff and some very bad Powerpoint presentations.<\/p>\n<p>One figure that really struck me: on the average building site 20 per cent of the goods delivered to the site go off it again as rubbish &#8211; usually straight into a skip and into landfill. That&#8217;s a good measure of our throwaway society, when you think about it. <\/p>\n<p>Also interesting that schools consume a 15% of public sector energy and emit about 6% of all UK emissions &#8211; so trying to deal with their issues is not trivial, or a case of educating future generations about sustainability, although that&#8217;s certainly important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent half of yesterday at a conference on Sustainable Schools, which was as such things usually are a mixture of fascinating stuff and some very bad Powerpoint presentations. One figure that really struck me: on the average building site 20 per cent of the goods delivered to the site go off it again as [&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-1888","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\/1888","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=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}