{"id":3300,"date":"2014-06-29T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?page_id=3300"},"modified":"2020-01-11T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T15:04:56","slug":"waste-less","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/waste-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Days-365+48h-Easter-waste.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Days-365+48h-Easter-waste-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Days 365+48h Easter waste\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Days-365+48h-Easter-waste-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Days-365+48h-Easter-waste-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Days-365+48h-Easter-waste-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Days-365+48h-Easter-waste.jpg 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>On\u00a0Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, I started six weeks of concerted effort to create less waste. I wanted to lessen my carbon footprint by recycling and pre-cycling more. (Pre-cycling \u00a0refers\u00a0<\/strong><strong>especially\u00a0to reducing packaging so that recycling it isn&#8217;t even necessary.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Days-365+48d-Jim-w-chair-pad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Days-365+48d-Jim-w-chair-pad-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Days 365+48d Jim w chair pad\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Why Lent? As I try to honor God&#8217;s creation by not polluting it, I hoped this would clean my soul by a heightened awareness of what is garbage and what is not. Read my Waste-Less Lent posts below\u00a0to see what I learned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2647\">WASTE-LESS LENT<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; The plan: What I will count and what is cheating<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2688\">RESEARCH<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; 10 things I learned about recycling<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2707\">CHANGING SHOPPING HABITS<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; How pure to be about packaging at the grocery store<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2721\">NEW FINDINGS<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; Can you recycle pizza boxes? Doing\u00a0laundry ecologically<a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Days-365+48e-pitchers-+-cups.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Days-365+48e-pitchers-+-cups-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Days 365+48e pitchers + cups\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2740\">CURB SIDE RECYCLING<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s great but who takes what takes more research<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2754\">WATER<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Bottled water failures and successes<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2769\">TRADING TRASH<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Does your community have &#8220;terracycling&#8221;? Find out what it is.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2786\">PRECYCLING<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Avoiding unnecessary packaging at stores and dealing with other people&#8217;s trash.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1365\">BEYOND RECYCLING<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; How little garbage can you create?<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2804\">SUMMARY<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; 6 lessons learned<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365194-recycling-basics\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>RECYCLING BASICS<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8211; 2019 update<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On\u00a0Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, I started six weeks of concerted effort to create less waste. I wanted to lessen my carbon footprint by recycling and pre-cycling more. 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As I try to honor God&#8217;s creation by not polluting it, I hoped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3300","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6585,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3300\/revisions\/6585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}