{"id":11120,"date":"2021-01-21T04:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/south-asia\/article\/3118626\/nepal-transform-mount-everest-trash-art-raise-environmental"},"modified":"2021-01-21T04:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:01:41","slug":"nepal-to-transform-mount-everest-trash-into-art-to-raise-environmental-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/nepal-to-transform-mount-everest-trash-into-art-to-raise-environmental-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal to transform Mount Everest trash into art to raise environmental awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"Trash collected from Mount Everest is set to be transformed into art and displayed in a nearby gallery in Nepal, to highlight the need to save the world\u2019s tallest mountain from turning into a dumping site.Used oxygen bottles, torn tents, ropes, broken ladders, cans and plastic wrappers discarded by climbers and trekkers litter the 8,848.86 metre (29,032 feet) peak and the surrounding areas.Tommy Gustafsson, project director and a co-founder of the Sagarmatha Next Centre \u2013 a visitors\u2019\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/south-asia\/article\/3118626\/nepal-transform-mount-everest-trash-art-raise-environmental\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trash collected from Mount Everest is set to be transformed into art and displayed in a nearby gallery in Nepal, to highlight the need to save the world\u2019s tallest mountain from turning into a dumping site.Used oxygen bottles, torn tents, ropes, broken &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11121,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}