{"id":193,"date":"2017-06-12T09:53:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T08:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/?p=193"},"modified":"2018-02-08T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:14:43","slug":"the-end-of-the-year-is-nigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/2017\/06\/12\/the-end-of-the-year-is-nigh\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the year is nigh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-201 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/dreamstime_xs_24526108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/dreamstime_xs_24526108.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/dreamstime_xs_24526108-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t quite believe it, but this Friday coming is the last day of the academic year. Hasn&#8217;t time flown! This year sure has had its challenges!\u00a0And this blog post is a little thank you to all our students.<\/p>\n<p>Last year we initiated collection points with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fareshare.org.uk\/?gclid=CN_mi_3zt9QCFXEz0wodCw8C9Q\">FareShare<\/a><\/strong>, a charity in Kent who collect food and distribute it for people in need. Students donated an incredible 330kg &#8211; that&#8217;s more than a third of a tonne! Can we do better this year? Here&#8217;s our stall at Rutherford last Thursday already bristling with goodies for families in Kent. Look out for our next collection days! <strong>Keynes Tues 13th (10am-2pm) <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Parkwood Admin Thurs 15th (10am-2pm).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-194 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/End-Day-2-Rutherford-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A student volunteer waits at a table laden with food donations for the Fare Share charity. \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/End-Day-2-Rutherford-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/End-Day-2-Rutherford-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/End-Day-2-Rutherford-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/End-Day-2-Rutherford-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Our stall at Rutherford last week<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but we&#8217;ve had an additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/\"><strong>British Heart Foundation<\/strong><\/a> clothing bank installed by <strong>R-block bin store, Keynes<\/strong> &#8211; and within three days that already saw the largest number of donations of all the banks on campus! Wow, you guys are awesome! Here&#8217;s the one at <strong>Bossenden, Parkwood<\/strong>, being installed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-196\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/20170517_BankBossenden-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Outside the launderette at Bossenden Court in Park Wood, University of Kent, a new clothing bank for the British Heart Foundation is installed, ready for students' donations. \" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/20170517_BankBossenden-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/20170517_BankBossenden-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/20170517_BankBossenden-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/20170517_BankBossenden-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/files\/2017\/06\/20170517_BankBossenden.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The British Heart Foundation clothing bank at Bossenden<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is not to forget our <strong>Medway<\/strong> students by any means! We&#8217;re extremely proud of them for upping the recycling rates on the Medway campus by <span style=\"color: #339966\"><strong>a staggering 102%<\/strong><\/span>! This is just unbelievable! Loads of love coming your way down the M2!<\/p>\n<p>Do keep your eye out for the updates as I&#8217;ll be letting you all know how you did when all the stats are in. I&#8217;m sure this year is going to be better than ever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t quite believe it, but this Friday coming is the last day of the academic year. Hasn&#8217;t time flown! This year sure has had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/2017\/06\/12\/the-end-of-the-year-is-nigh\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48900,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,124,158294,102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/recycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}