{"id":799,"date":"2020-02-25T05:29:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T10:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=799"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:26:03","slug":"report-argues-most-plastics-falsely-labeled-as-recyclable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/02\/25\/report-argues-most-plastics-falsely-labeled-as-recyclable\/","title":{"rendered":"Report argues most plastics falsely labeled as recyclable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-5.22.57-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-800\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-5.22.57-AM-909x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-5.22.57-AM-909x1024.png 909w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-5.22.57-AM-266x300.png 266w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-5.22.57-AM-768x865.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-5.22.57-AM.png 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new Greenpeace USA report argues U.S. companies are incorrectly labeling many plastic products as recyclable. The report, &#8220;Circular Claims Fall Flat&#8221;, states only PET #1 and HDPE #2 bottles and jugs are truly recyclable, and that full-body shrink sleeves on those items can also limit their recyclability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What about no longer accepting any plastic for recycling on campus? Paper makes up the majority of stuff in our recycling audit. Metal and glass are easy. Plastic is not &#8211; too many kinds, most are not recyclable (article) and plastic is often the material contaminated by food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wastedive.com\/news\/greenpeace-report-recyclables-plastics-circular-economy\/572293\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Source:\u00a0Report argues most plastics, especially #3-7s, falsely labeled as recyclable<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A new Greenpeace USA report argues U.S. companies are incorrectly labeling many plastic products as recyclable. The report, &#8220;Circular Claims Fall Flat&#8221;, states only PET #1 and HDPE #2 bottles and jugs are truly recyclable, and that full-body shrink <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/02\/25\/report-argues-most-plastics-falsely-labeled-as-recyclable\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","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\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}