{"id":220,"date":"2013-10-27T09:31:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T09:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerowastetown.org.uk\/?p=220"},"modified":"2024-05-26T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T09:57:42","slug":"national-reuse-phoneline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/2013\/10\/national-reuse-phoneline\/","title":{"rendered":"National Reuse Phoneline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posters promoting the national re-use phone line started to appear in bus shelters earlier this year.\u00a0The re-use phone line is a free service to make it easier to donate quality, unwanted goods like furniture, white goods, working electrical goods and other bulkier items.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by Zero Waste Scotland, the re-use phone line &#8211; 0800 0665 820 is able to divert items to third sector community organisations in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastlothian.gov.uk\/news\/article\/1446\/east_lothian_supporting_national_re-use_campaign\">East Lothian Council<\/a> area.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Apparently only a very small proportion of items commonly suitable for reuse are being donated to re-use charities and instead ending up in recycling or landfill.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that reuse is much better than recycling?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewisegroup.co.uk\/content\/mediaassets\/images\/Reuse%20line2.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posters promoting the national re-use phone line started to appear in bus shelters earlier this year.\u00a0The re-use phone line is a free service to make it easier to donate quality, unwanted goods like furniture, white goods, working electrical goods and other bulkier items. Funded by Zero Waste Scotland, the re-use phone line &#8211; 0800 0665&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/2013\/10\/national-reuse-phoneline\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Reuse Phoneline<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}