{"id":449,"date":"2019-10-08T04:44:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T09:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=449"},"modified":"2019-10-08T04:44:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T09:44:41","slug":"recycling-rates-improve-when-people-know-what-items-will-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/10\/08\/recycling-rates-improve-when-people-know-what-items-will-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling rates improve when people know what items will become"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-08-at-5.42.12-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-450\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-08-at-5.42.12-AM-1024x523.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-08-at-5.42.12-AM-1024x523.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-08-at-5.42.12-AM-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-08-at-5.42.12-AM-768x393.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-08-at-5.42.12-AM.png 1338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats \u2013 details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.<\/p>\n<p>When you throw something in the recycling bin, do you ever stop to think about what it could become? And when you do, does it make you more inclined to use that recycling bin, instead of lazily tossing an item in the trash? Several consumer psychologists designed a study around these questions, in an effort to determine whether or not explaining to people what their recyclables are transformed into would help boost recycling rates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/culture\/recycling-rates-improve-when-people-know-what-items-will-be-used.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recycling rates improve when people know what items will become<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/recycling-rates-could-rise-significantly-with-this-simple-tweak-122295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Recycling rates could rise significantly with this simple tweak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats \u2013 details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin. When you throw something in the recycling bin, do you ever stop to think about what it could become? And <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/10\/08\/recycling-rates-improve-when-people-know-what-items-will-become\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}