{"id":1513,"date":"2024-07-11T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2024-07-07T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T17:08:16","slug":"has-recycling-become-just-another-example-of-greenwashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/has-recycling-become-just-another-example-of-greenwashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Recycling Become Just Another Example of Greenwashing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic chasing-arrows recycling symbol became so popular with people trying to do the right thing that greedy corporations began slapping the symbols on just about everything to encourage people to buy them.\u00a0 Now the symbol has become virtually useless.\u00a0 Even worse, it causes well-meaning people to put plastics into their recycle bins that actually damage recycling equipment.\u00a0 Please, folks, take the time to learn which plastics are recyclable and which are not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the recycling symbol lost its meaning<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/culture\/recycling-symbol-logo-plastic-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/grist.org\/culture\/recycling-symbol-logo-plastic-design\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TAKE ACTION<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/plastics-treaty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign Petition in support of Global Plastics Treaty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781795183352\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic chasing-arrows recycling symbol became so popular with people trying to do the right thing that greedy corporations began slapping the symbols on just about everything to encourage people to buy them.\u00a0 Now the symbol has become virtually useless.\u00a0 Even worse, it causes well-meaning people to put plastics into their recycle bins that actually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/has-recycling-become-just-another-example-of-greenwashing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Has Recycling Become Just Another Example of Greenwashing?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}