{"id":15657,"date":"2007-11-14T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/11\/14\/almost-there\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:45","slug":"almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/11\/14\/almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost there\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Edinburgh&#8217;s recycling program has grown and improved dramatically in the past two years. Suddenly we have kerbside recycling and lots of large wheelie-bins close-by. It&#8217;s got to the point that the Weasel and I only throw out one carrier bag of rubbish a week between us. (In fact, he points out that while <a title=\"Britain, 'the environmental dustbin'.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalgraffiti.com\/?p=468\">the rest of the UK is scoring really badly in terms of landfill<\/a>, Scotland is beating all its recycling targets. Wahey! Oh, but we&#8217;re still <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/topics.cfm?tid=235&amp;id=1583362007\">only recycling 28% of the waste we produce<\/a>, where other countries are reaching rates of 70% or more.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve got a ways to go yet. For instance, I&#8217;d like to recycle an old piece of electronics equipment. I live where it says &#8220;Old Town&#8221; on the map. Let&#8217;s see where I&#8217;d have to go&#8230; Ah. Yeah. To one of those numbered points out on the edges of the map. So this means using a car&#8230; to do recycling.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hame.land\/blog\/blog_files\/recycling.jpg.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width:0\" height=\"322\" alt=\"recycling\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1046\/almost-there\" width=\"373\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone want a scanner that only works on its side?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Edinburgh&#8217;s recycling program has grown and improved dramatically in the past two years. Suddenly we have kerbside recycling and lots of large wheelie-bins close-by. It&#8217;s got to the point that the Weasel and I only throw out one carrier bag of rubbish a week between us. (In fact, he points out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}