{"id":395,"date":"2013-02-22T14:38:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=395"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:43:20","slug":"can-pens-be-recycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Can pens be recycled?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I called Metro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We in Portland have a recycling hotline where you can call at any time and ask a real human being whether this or that can be recycled and where. Here\u2019s the number: 503-234-3000. Staffed by humans from 8:30 to 5 on weekdays.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll either tell you exactly where to take an item, or supply you with another number. They suggested I call Far West Fibers<\/a>, a recycling business that has three area plant locations and three depots where people can take their recycling. (And yes, we do have curbside collection in Portland, but they don\u2019t take everything. We dedicated Portland green-heads routinely sort our other stuff in our garages and schlep it to one of these places in our cars.)<\/p>\n

I both called and emailed Far West Fibers to ask if they take pens in their rigid recycling. Both answers came back Yes, we do<\/em>. Even after I pointed out that most pens have at least two or three different plastics going on, plus metal nibs and sometimes the clips or the whole caps are metal, they still said yes. And they didn\u2019t say anything about taking them apart and dividing up the different materials, either.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really understand that, but I\u2019m letting go. I made the inquiry — I\u2019m not just throwing things willy nilly into recycling bins for the sorting staff to deal with. I called the professionals and if they\u2019ve given me the wrong information, that\u2019s just going to have to be their problem. I\u2019m very willing to recycle, but good grief, I can\u2019t spend every waking hour of my life on it. I\u2019m just an ordinary person, not a scientist. I have to rely on others for expertise outside my field.<\/p>\n

Goodbye, dead pens. Thank you for your service. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I called Metro. We in Portland have a recycling hotline where you can call at any time and ask a real human being whether this or that can be recycled and where. Here\u2019s the number: 503-234-3000. Staffed by humans from 8:30 to 5 on weekdays. They\u2019ll either tell you exactly where to take an item, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}