{"id":7960,"date":"2021-08-31T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:01:13","slug":"wishcycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/08\/31\/wishcycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishcycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read that it\u2019s all my fault that recycling rates are so low. \u00a0It\u2019s because I don\u2019t wash the food cartons and yoghurt pots enough before I put them into the bins. \u00a0It\u2019s also because I'm a \"<a href=\"https:\/\/recyclenation.com\/2017\/08\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wishcycling\/\">wishcycler<\/a>\" which is\u00a0the process of putting items in a recycling bin instead of the waste even if you\u2019re not sure whether they are recyclable or not. \u00a0And it's because I rely on the information provided on labels and containers. \u00a0Even worse, it's because I never seek\u00a0guidance from my council but make assumptions<span class=\"paywall-EAB47CFD\"> based on my own ideas. \u00a0All this (and more) is revealed in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keepbritaintidy.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/Inside%20the%20Head%20of%20the%20Contaminator%20-%20Research%20Report%202020.pdf\">report<\/a> by the <em>Centre for Social Innovation<\/em> which is part of Keep Britain Untidy. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And there was I thinking that it was because there is still so much packaging that can\u2019t be recycled no matter how clean it is. \u00a0Because so many manufacturers persist in using plastic packaging when compostable or biodegradable alternatives are available or no packaging is needed. \u00a0Because we buy so much useless tat that comes with excess packaging. \u00a0 Etc. \u00a0Etc.<\/p>\n<p>No, none of this, it seems, is the case. \u00a0Rather, it's because we're just completely useless people who refuse to listen to the angelic host in Recycle Heaven whose chorus is that recycling will not just save the world in general, but deliver net-zero in particular. \u00a0We all over-estimate the value of recycling, but none more so than those whose business it is to promote it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read that it\u2019s all my fault that recycling rates are so low. \u00a0It\u2019s because I don\u2019t wash the food cartons and yoghurt pots enough before I put them into the bins. \u00a0It\u2019s also because I'm a \"wishcycler\" which is\u00a0the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}