{"id":98,"date":"2005-06-22T22:10:55","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T12:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/06\/22\/how-can-something-so-easy\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:19:13","slug":"how-can-something-so-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/06\/22\/how-can-something-so-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"How can something so easy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Japan recycling is a big part of the garbage. Every (second) week or so glass, cans, plastic and paper is picked up and taken away to be recycled.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s good and sounds easy doesn&#8217;t it? Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>You can recycle paper and card. But you cant put this kind of paper with the &#8220;paper&#8221; and cardboard is divided up into different &#8220;types&#8221; Hello? cardboard is cardboard. Plastic? That too is separated plastic sheets and bits of plastic don&#8217;t go with plastic bottles for example. Envelopes with plastic windows aren&#8217;t plastic and they&#8217;re not paper&#8230;. ? God knows where they go?!<\/p>\n<p>Glass and cans is easier &#8211; they all go out together, so I believe. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, recycling is a good thing. Here it&#8217;s just a little complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t we do what is done in Brisbane, throw it all in the wheelie bin.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/wheelie_bins.jpg\" alt=\"Wheelie bins\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/wheelie_bins.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/wheelie_bins-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Japan recycling is a big part of the garbage. Every (second) week or so glass, cans, plastic and paper is picked up and taken away to be recycled. Of course it&#8217;s good and sounds easy doesn&#8217;t it? Wrong. You can recycle paper and card. But you cant put this kind of paper with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[249,248,247],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","tag-recycling","tag-rubbish","tag-wheelie-bin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}