{"id":1773,"date":"2009-06-17T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/17\/recycling-becomes-a-way-of-life"},"modified":"2009-06-17T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T21:17:00","slug":"recycling-becomes-a-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"Recycling becomes a way of life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/recycling.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348412365254961378\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/61c36-recycling.jpg?w=300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Keep Amarillo Beautiful needs to hire some of the kids I saw in Jerusalem recently.<\/p>\n<p>I was sitting in a sidewalk cafe in the Old City. Then I looked up and saw two boys patrolling empty tables, looking for plastic bottles. They grabbed all the bottles they could find and tossed them into a bag.<\/p>\n<p>Recycling is a way of life in Israel. Israelis recycle plastic bottles, glass bottles, newspapers, aluminum cans &#8212; and water. It&#8217;s the water recycling that is most interesting. You can see Israeli homemakers pouring water they had used in cooking their vegetables onto their gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The recycling emphasis reminds me of my former home state of Oregon, which in the 1970s enacted a &#8220;Bottle Bill&#8221; that pays money for bottles and cans returned to grocery stores.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Amarillo Beautiful, the brainchild of Dusty McGuire, does a decent job of promoting these efforts here. But it hasn&#8217;t sold it yet on the population at large, which still is tossing a large quantity of these materials into the trash can, only to be hauled off to the landfill where it is buried forever.<\/p>\n<p>What the city needs are a few dedicated kids to take these bottles, cans and newspapers to the nearest recycling bin.<\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep Amarillo Beautiful needs to hire some of the kids I saw in Jerusalem recently. I was sitting in a sidewalk cafe in the Old City. Then I looked up and saw two boys patrolling empty tables, looking for plastic bottles. They grabbed all the bottles they could find and tossed them into a bag. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recycling becomes a way of life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}