{"id":3610,"date":"2020-09-12T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T01:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2020-09-12T18:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T01:33:58","slug":"whats-the-problem-with-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2020\/09\/12\/whats-the-problem-with-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Problem with Plastic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/constancehubbs\/posts\/10160037512144338\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/constancehubbs\/posts\/10160037512144338<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With regard to plastics, I doubt that the promise of recycling significantly increased the market for petroleum-based materials. But even without recycling, separation of refuse streams is a good idea as different materials lend themselves to different methods of disposal. And the price of any product should include a fee paid by the producer to the government to cover the cost of appropriate disposal.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/inis.iaea.org\/collection\/NCLCollectionStore\/_Public\/27\/066\/27066420.pdf\">this<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With regard to plastics, I doubt that the promise of recycling significantly increased the market for petroleum-based materials. But even without recycling, separation of refuse streams is a good idea as different materials lend themselves to different methods of disposal. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2020\/09\/12\/whats-the-problem-with-plastic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}