{"id":89,"date":"2019-11-23T14:13:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:19:19","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plastic Free Crowthorne was set up as part of \u2018Plastic Free Communities\u2019, a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfers Against Sewage<\/a>&nbsp;initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plastic pollution has sadly become synonymous with everything we do; from walking, running, beach holidays to wildlife watching \u2013 unfortunately it is now an expected part of our experience. This is why marine plastic pollution and specifically tackling society\u2019s throwaway, excessive or unnecessary plastic culture, has become Surfers Against Sewage\u2019s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.org.uk\/wasteland\/\" target=\"_blank\">top priority<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plastic pollution is an issue which affects all parts of society and is something that we can all take action on, at every level. Indeed, it will only be through concrete, collective, positive action that we can make the change in culture needed to stop to plastic flood from overwhelming our world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plastic Free Crowthorne aims to minimise our villages contribution to the plastic crisis. We are proud to be the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inyourarea.co.uk\/news\/meet-the-first-community-to-go-plastic-free-in-berkshire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">awarded SAS Plastic Free Communities Status<\/a>. But the work does not stop there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cFor most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.\u201d<br><\/em>Jacques Yves Cousteau<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic Free Crowthorne was set up as part of \u2018Plastic Free Communities\u2019, a&nbsp;Surfers Against Sewage&nbsp;initiative. Plastic pollution has sadly become synonymous with everything we do; from walking, running, beach holidays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-home.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-r-o-w.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}