{"id":130776,"date":"2025-06-09T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130776"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:33:22","slug":"from-avatar-to-mountain-of-rubbish-china-pulls-decade-of-trash-from-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130776","title":{"rendered":"From Avatar to mountain of rubbish: China pulls decade of trash from caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese authorities have cleaned up more than 50 tonnes of rubbish from ancient caves in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, a stunning site that inspired a location in Avatar, and punished four officials after the cavities became a stinking dumping ground.<br \/>\nThe clean-up came around two weeks after a viral video showed the state of a natural cave in Zhangjiajie\u2019s Cili county in Hunan province that had been used for years by nearby villagers to dump rubbish, resulting in garbage piling up \u201cas high&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3313706\/avatar-mountain-rubbish-china-pulls-decade-trash-historic-caves?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese authorities have cleaned up more than 50 tonnes of rubbish from ancient caves in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, a stunning site that inspired&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}