{"id":25570,"date":"2020-06-26T20:45:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25570"},"modified":"2020-06-26T20:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:45:02","slug":"keeping-rubbish-out-of-the-recycling-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25570","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Rubbish out of the Green Wheelie Bin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20062602.jpg\" alt=\"Hottest Day of the year\" \/><br \/>\nThe Vale of White Horse District Council sent out a press release last week to remind residents not to contaminate their green recycling bin with rubbish. <\/p>\n<p>The recycling crew check the top of the green wheelie bin, and sometimes slap a sticker on it and leave it unemptied. (The truck-load could be rejected at the recycling centre if any rubbish got noticed there.)<\/p>\n<p>In the Vale of White Horse District &#8211; two weeks ago, out of 63,000 bins, 2,211 got a contamination sticker:<br \/>\n* Black bags\/coloured bags &#8211; 1078<br \/>\n* Food &#8211; 331<br \/>\n* Textiles &#8211; 206<br \/>\n* Other &#8211; 596<\/p>\n<p>We have two bins in our kitchen, one recyclable, and one not. When I transfer the recyclable bin to the green bin, I sometimes notice a jay cloth and put it in the black wheelie bin. On other occasions I save a glass jar and put it in the green wheelie bin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vale of White Horse District Council sent out a press release last week to remind residents not to contaminate their green recycling bin with rubbish. The recycling crew check the top of the green wheelie bin, and sometimes slap a sticker on it and leave it unemptied. (The truck-load could be rejected at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}