{"id":716,"date":"2014-03-09T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=716"},"modified":"2014-03-09T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T22:08:02","slug":"that-little-recyling-symbol-what-does-it-really-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"That little recyling symbol: what does it really mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/green-recycling-symbol.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-726\" alt=\"green-recycling-symbol\" src=\"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/green-recycling-symbol-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>On plastics, you&#8217;ll see a little number in the middle of it. What that number means is a topic for a future post. It\u2019s not what you\u2019d think, and it\u2019s kind of complicated. The good news is there\u2019s only one key thing to remember:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cJust because something is recyclable SOMEWHERE, doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s recyclable where you live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No recycling plant recycles everything. They have certain equipment, and they have certain markets. They are not doing this because they\u2019re all green-hearted and everything &#8212; though they may also be that. But the bottom line is, as always:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They\u2019re in it for the money.<\/p>\n<p>They have to be. They have to sell what they make. They melt down three or four plastic items into little pellets. Then they sell the pellets to a local factory that melts the pellets into flowerpots which they in turn sell to the area nurseries. The pellets have to be right. There\u2019s a recipe, just like cooking. They can\u2019t just throw any old thing in there, or the flowerpots won\u2019t turn out right.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why curbside collection only takes certain plastics &#8212; because they have a finite number of LOCAL plants they can take it to. There might be a recycling plant in a faraway land that DOES recycle that other thing, but your curbside collection people are not going to ship it there.<\/p>\n<p>next: Well darn it. What can I do with my kid\u2019s BigWheel that I ran over with my SUV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On plastics, you&#8217;ll see a little number in the middle of it. What that number means is a topic for a future post. It\u2019s not what you\u2019d think, and it\u2019s kind of complicated. The good news is there\u2019s only one key thing to remember:\u00a0 \u201cJust because something is recyclable SOMEWHERE, doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s recyclable where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[134,184,39],"tags":[98,86,186,148,185,76,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}