{"id":1736,"date":"2009-09-29T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/09\/herts-waste-recycling\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T23:31:08","slug":"herts-waste-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Herts Waste Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was particularly chuffed, and even rather impressed to see that in Hertfordshire apparently &quot;just under 70 per cent of the county&#39;s household waste was sent for re-use, recycling or composting&quot; in April and June. That&#39;s scarcely believable actually, but I&#39;ve seen the increasing facilities and attention to separating waste for re-use at the local tip, and I&#39;d say that we personally recycle at about that rate. Now we&#39;ve moved into a house rather than a flat we have recycling boxes and a big green wheelie bin for garden waste and card, making it easier than ever.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;re doing a lot of work on the garden recently though so the big green bin is usually overflowing whereas the black bin just has a paltry amount of waste in the bottom, even with the 2 weeks between collections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stalbansreview.co.uk\/news\/4650041.Recycling_reaches_record_amounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story over at St Albans Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was particularly chuffed, and even rather impressed to see that in Hertfordshire apparently &quot;just under 70 per cent of the county&#39;s household waste was sent for re-use, recycling or composting&quot; in April and June. That&#39;s scarcely believable actually, but I&#39;ve seen the increasing facilities and attention to separating waste for re-use at the local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}