{"id":86,"date":"2020-09-22T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainability.me.holycross.edu\/?p=86"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:23:18","slug":"are-you-a-wishful-recycler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/2020\/09\/22\/are-you-a-wishful-recycler\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a wishful recycler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relatable moment: Standing over a trash bin and a recycle bin awkwardly waving that hand over each opening trying to decide if that item we&#8217;re holding is recyclable. Then deciding that we&#8217;ll throw it into the recycling bin in the hopes that it will get recycled. <\/p>\n<p>This is wishful recycling.<\/p>\n<p>When someone tosses items in the recycling bin and hopes that they are recyclable or thinks that they should be recyclable, that person is a wishful recycler. While well-intentioned, wishful recycling results in a contaminated recycling stream, sending perfectly good material straight to the landfill. It\u2019s avoidable! Waste Management, Holy Cross\u2019 waste hauler, recommends three rules: <\/p>\n<p>1) Recycle all clean and empty plastic bottles, cans, paper and cardboard.<br \/>\n2) Keep food and liquid out of the recycling.<br \/>\n3) No plastic bags.<\/p>\n<p>With everyone&#8217;s participation, Holy Cross can expand its 35% waste diversion rate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/09\/Indoor-Recycling-Sign-Blog-791x1024.png\" alt=\"Recycling sign found on campus bins\" width=\"525\" height=\"680\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatable moment: Standing over a trash bin and a recycle bin awkwardly waving that hand over each opening trying to decide if that item we&#8217;re holding is recyclable. Then deciding that we&#8217;ll throw it into the recycling bin in the hopes that it will get recycled. This is wishful recycling. When someone tosses items in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/2020\/09\/22\/are-you-a-wishful-recycler\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are you a wishful recycler?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}