{"id":2624,"date":"2023-06-02T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T20:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:28:39","slug":"recycling-reuse-and-energy-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/programs\/stop-food-waste\/recycling-reuse-and-energy-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling and Reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7371\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Recycling saves energy.&nbsp; According to the USEPA, it takes 96% less energy to make an aluminum can from a recycled can, 67% less energy to make a plastic bottle from recycled plastics, 60% less energy to make paper from recycled paper and 30% less energy to make glass bottles from recycled glass.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like the cleanest energy is the energy not used, reduce and reuse saves energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions&#8230;recycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Jersey\u2019s municipal solid waste disposal accounts for 7% of the total New Jersey greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compost your organic waste.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling saves energy.&nbsp; According to the USEPA, it takes 96% less energy to make an aluminum can from a recycled can, 67% less energy to make a plastic bottle from recycled plastics, 60% less energy to make paper from recycled paper and 30% less energy to make glass bottles from recycled glass.&nbsp; Just like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11146,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-your-home","category-stop-food-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}