{"id":830,"date":"2007-12-05T21:06:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T21:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2007-12-05T21:06:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T21:06:45","slug":"why-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Why Bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As any local residents will know, Walsall Council operate a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walsall.gov.uk\/index\/environment\/rubbish_waste_and_recycling\/kerbside_recycling.htm\">kerbside recycling scheme<\/a>. This means that they give you a green plastic box, and you put recycleables in it, and they collect and recycle them, saving on the amount of waste going in landfill and helping the council <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walsall.gov.uk\/index\/environment\/rubbish_waste_and_recycling\/municipal_waste_strategy.htm\">meet it&#8217;s targets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now without notifying anyone, the rules have changed: You could leave out additional containers, and you could recycle foil, for example. However, on the last few occasions, any foil we&#8217;ve left, and anything in additional bags has been left.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, what got left went straight in the bin, with a loud &#8216;well bollocks to that then&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Surely the idea is to maximise what is recycled? Hardly making it easy, is it?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t help that the council&#8217;s own website contains conflicting advice. Here&#8217;s two pages retrieved tonight that show <i>different<\/i> lists of items that can be recycled.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/recycle1.pdf' title='Recycle1'>Recycle1<\/a> (PDF)<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/reccyle2.pdf' title='Recycle2'>Recycle2<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As any local residents will know, Walsall Council operate a kerbside recycling scheme. This means that they give you a green plastic box, and you put recycleables in it, and they collect and recycle them, saving on the amount of waste going in landfill and helping the council meet it&#8217;s targets. Now without notifying anyone, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=830\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Bother?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-tree-hugging-hippy-crap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}