{"id":2082,"date":"2007-06-03T09:09:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T09:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2007-06-03T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T09:10:34","slug":"recycling-great-well-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"Recycling. Great. Well, maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href = \"http:\/\/women.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/women\/the_way_we_live\/article1875550.ece\">salutary piece<\/a> in the Sunday Times this morning. Logic suggests that a lot can go wrong with the &#8220;mixed bag&#8221; recycling schemes, in which glass, paper, plastic etc is all collected in one lot and supposedly sorted later, and it seems in this case logic is right.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chris White, its commercial manager, said the widespread practice of councils collecting material for recycling in mixed bags meant his plant was routinely sent batches of paper \u00e2\u20ac\u0153contaminated\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with bottles, plastic, cans and even food residue. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impossible to deal with plastics and other materials here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They go into a bin, are compacted and then it goes off to landfill.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A salutary piece in the Sunday Times this morning. Logic suggests that a lot can go wrong with the &#8220;mixed bag&#8221; recycling schemes, in which glass, paper, plastic etc is all collected in one lot and supposedly sorted later, and it seems in this case logic is right. Chris White, its commercial manager, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}