{"id":2740,"date":"2013-03-06T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2014-07-17T16:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:49:35","slug":"waste-less-lent-week-3-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/waste-less-lent-week-3-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste-Less Lent: Week 3 &#8211; Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" alt=\"Days 365+48d Jim w chair pad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Days-365+48d-Jim-w-chair-pad-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Oh oh. I got worried this week when Jim replaced his 3\u2019x4\u2019 chair mat. The old one had a hole in it and would never fit into my 1\u2019x4\u201d red capped container. After a bit of research I found that the chair pad was 100% vinyl PVC recycling number 3 and the manufacturer said it was recyclable. To verify this I called my city\u2019s recycling manager who confirmed that it could be put out with our curbside recycling. That\u2019s a relief. I know that this Waste-Less Lent is an artificial project, but I\u2019m really aiming to keep my weekly trash small enough so that it can fit in my red cap container.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson:<\/strong> One of the things I\u2019m learning is that wasting less can take a fair amount of research and that takes time. Most of my research has started online but I usually find that I get the clearest and quickest answer when I can call a company on the phone. Of course finding a phone number for a national company from their website can take longer than the call. I guess this is one of the reasons that doing a project like this for a period of time like the six weeks of Lent makes sense. I probably wouldn\u2019t go to the trouble to do the research on a regular basis, but knowing it\u2019s for a time-limited stretch gives me the motivation. Since the recycling research only has to be done once for the household items that I\u2019m uncertain about means that after Lent I will have built up a pool of information that I can continue to use.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Days-3658d-Week-4-waste.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2743\" alt=\"Days 365=8d Week 4 waste\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Days-3658d-Week-4-waste-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The white waste bucket photo continues to grow. 2 week\u2019s worth are in the white can while Week 3\u2019s garbage is in the red capped container. Looks like I\u2019m not going to fit all 6 weeks of garbage in my white waste basket. Maybe, I\u2019ll have to stomp it down. \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0(The ruler and Jim\u2019s hand are for perspective.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh oh. I got worried this week when Jim replaced his 3\u2019x4\u2019 chair mat. The old one had a hole in it and would never fit into my 1\u2019x4\u201d red capped container. After a bit of research I found that the chair pad was 100% vinyl PVC recycling number 3 and the manufacturer said it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waste-less-lent","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","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=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}