{"id":558,"date":"2009-02-13T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/?p=558"},"modified":"2009-02-13T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:59:47","slug":"concerning-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Concerning Recycling&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Arial;\">I noticed some time ago at the recycling dumpsters behind the Town Office that items acceptable for recycling in the dumpster for cans, glass bottles, aluminum, etc. included \u201caseptic\u201d containers.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I called All Waste to inquire if that packaging was also acceptable to them, and I was assured that it was.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So for at least a year I have been placing my empty half-gallon milk and orange juice aseptic (waxy coated) cartons in our bin for cans and bottles.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>On reading the recently circulated flyer concerning All Waste\u2019s single stream recycling, I noticed that aseptic containers were not listed under acceptable \u201cfood and beverage containers.\u201d So I phoned All Waste once again and spoke with Corrine who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">assured<\/span> me that these containers are perfectly acceptable for recycling.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>She said that they simply copied the general guidelines published by CRRC (CT Resource Recycling Authority) in their recent flyer.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Note, too, that these containers are not only for milk and OJ, but many other liquids (soups, broth, etc.) are packaged this way.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>All are recyclable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In order to protect our environment to the extent we can by maximizing recycling, I hope we will all cooperate.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Submitted by <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;\">Barbara Massy<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed some time ago at the recycling dumpsters behind the Town Office that items acceptable for recycling in the dumpster for cans, glass bottles, aluminum, etc. included \u201caseptic\u201d containers.\u00a0 I called All Waste to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lark"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowhill.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}