{"id":1365,"date":"2011-02-02T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2014-09-28T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T18:26:00","slug":"extra-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/extra-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra: Beyond Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Days-329-Extra-recycling-paper-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1369\" title=\"Days 329 Extra - recycling paper 002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Days-329-Extra-recycling-paper-002-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So let\u2019s talk about recycling. Now that I\u2019ve faced the demon of recycling electronics, what about all the more normal recycling we do. You know \u2013 the paper, glass, plastic, and cans. Recycling these things doesn\u2019t feel as virtuous as giving a needy family clothes, dishes, or toys. Technically, it\u2019s not really giving something away since it\u2019s simply going into the garbage, albeit a curbside recycling container. We\u2019ve been recycling and composting for a number of years and feel that it\u2019s only right to do as citizens of planet earth. It may not make a huge difference but it\u2019s one step that we hope is being multiplied by many other responsible consumers.<\/p>\n<p>BUT\u2026I keep remembering \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/noimpactproject.org\/movie\/\">No Impact Man<\/a>\u201d and how he tried not to create any garbage that needed recycling. We use cloth bags for shopping \u2013 most of the time. Don\u2019t drink bottled water \u2013 except when in developing countries. We\u2019ve downsized our garbage can. Hey, we\u2019re good, right! But I\u2019ve been starting to notice how over-packaged many of the things I buy are. Sometimes I can\u2019t avoid it, but my next self-improvement and earth-saving effort I think will be to buy less and smaller, so that there is less to give away or recycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So let\u2019s talk about recycling. Now that I\u2019ve faced the demon of recycling electronics, what about all the more normal recycling we do. You know \u2013 the paper, glass, plastic, and cans. Recycling these things doesn\u2019t feel as virtuous as giving a needy family clothes, dishes, or toys. Technically, it\u2019s not really giving something away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-stuff","category-extra-fun","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}