{"id":583,"date":"2014-03-29T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T18:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerowastetown.org.uk\/?p=583"},"modified":"2024-05-26T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T09:57:38","slug":"waste-not-if-you-can-recycle-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/2014\/03\/waste-not-if-you-can-recycle-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste not &#8211; if you can recycle it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-589\" alt=\"DSC_0069\" src=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/files\/2014\/03\/DSC_0069-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Householders will by now be receiving news through their letterbox that changes in waste collections are in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>This has to be a welcome move as waste is costly to dispose of, while recycling pays.<\/p>\n<p>As Tom Reid, ELC&#8217;s Waste Services Manager\u00a0says to the reporter over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastlothiannews.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/east-lothian-s-waste-centre-at-work-1-3347751\">East Lothian News<\/a> website there&#8217;s considerable value in our waste, but unless we segregate it at source it is very costly to get that value back.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here&#8217;s what ELC has in store for us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>weekly food waste collections<\/li>\n<li>fortnightly bin collections (if you recycle your bin will be almost empty)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collecting food waste separately will mean that energy is recovered and fertiliser obtained, but importantly reduce landfill taxes and unnecessary emissions of methane,\u00a0a strong greenhouse gas.<\/p>\n<p>Test yourself to see how well we are doing in East Lothian &#8211; you may be surprised by the results.<\/p>\n<p>[QUIZZIN 1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Householders will by now be receiving news through their letterbox that changes in waste collections are in the pipeline. This has to be a welcome move as waste is costly to dispose of, while recycling pays. As Tom Reid, ELC&#8217;s Waste Services Manager\u00a0says to the reporter over at the East Lothian News website there&#8217;s considerable&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/2014\/03\/waste-not-if-you-can-recycle-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waste not &#8211; if you can recycle it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/zwt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}