{"id":219143,"date":"2019-09-26T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T07:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/car\/volvo-ambassador-help-create-cleaner-world\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:56:10","slug":"volvo-ambassador-help-create-cleaner-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2019\/09\/26\/volvo-ambassador-help-create-cleaner-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo ambassador help create a cleaner world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since its humble beginnings, the initiative has grown dramatically and last year the global event united 17 million people, across 158 countries and cleaned up 88,500 tons of waste, making it the biggest waste collection day in human history.\u00a0Making a difference locally this year, actress and Volvo ambassador, Jessica Nkosi joined a group of volunteers in Irene, Pretoria for the event held on Saturday, 21 September.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315284\" src=\"https:\/\/randfonteinherald.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/PHOTO-2019-09-21-10-55-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The initiative focuses on creating a positive collaboration and the spirit of unity while cleaning up the planet and creating a cleaner future for the human race. Through activities and campaigns, the organisation hopes to promote environmentally friendly processes in the daily activities of individuals, organisations and businesses as well as inspire them to take part in the annual event to clean up mismanaged waste.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315285\" src=\"https:\/\/randfonteinherald.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/c95004e7-7b44-41f1-a830-62cb00c9a672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='d8d4588076790841ccf621e2dfa0693b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Clean-Up day initiative that began in 2008 saw 50 000 people unite to participate in the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":219144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Autodealer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}