{"id":15834,"date":"2022-06-26T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/?p=15834"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T17:22:29","slug":"extractive-sand-and-rock-for-the-building-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/stories\/extractive-sand-and-rock-for-the-building-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Extractive sand and rock for the building industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter and I went to a local dump of many tonnes of unwanted road surface chippings. It had been gathered up after a recent resurfacing project when it had been put onto the road surface and then found to be extra to the process of embedding a driving surface. The remains that had been gathered here six months ago had not yet been removed and were beginning to show signs of being colonised by plants.<\/p>\n<p>This was a really good place to experience the extraction practices of sand and rock for the building and infrastructure industries. Globally, extraction of sands and rock is one of the most depleting of all industries and easy-to-access, useable sand and rock is fast running out. All around us are active quarries, as well as historic quarries. The material that has been extracted from these sites around the world is now contained within the buildings and roads of the cities of the world.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about how much of the planet is being taken out of where it lies, to be put to a human use. Some of it went in my daughter\u2019s shoes when she climbed the hill. It made her irritated! I recognised that feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter and I went to a local dump of many tonnes of unwanted road surface chippings. It had been gathered up after a recent resurfacing project when it had been put onto the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":15838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"place":[],"event-year":[467],"media-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15860,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions\/15860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"event-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-year?post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"media-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-type?post=15834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}