{"id":1862,"date":"2019-01-17T19:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2019-01-17T19:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:26:58","slug":"1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"Trashing the planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/recycling-article-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/recycling-article-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/recycling-article-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/recycling-article.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Joe&#8217;s article<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We, many of us, are &#8220;trashing&#8221; the planet.  I wrote this article a few weeks back.  Ada&#8217;s Village Administrator pointed out that China is taking approximately 40% less recycling from the U.S. these days because it&#8217;s trying to get its own pollution problems under control.  I mention further on in the article, that when we were on a research trip out east a number of years ago, we learned that New Jersey&#8217;s landfills were all but full, and garbage trucks there have clear cylinders on the outside that the trash is initially funneled through before going into the body of the truck.  If recyclables are observed in the garbage, some municipalities levy fines now &#8212; of up to $250.  For a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/environment-ckji\">position on the environment&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, many of us, are &#8220;trashing&#8221; the planet. I wrote this article a few weeks back. Ada&#8217;s Village Administrator pointed out that China is taking approximately 40% less recycling from the U.S. these days because it&#8217;s trying to get its <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1862\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}