{"id":18909,"date":"2017-06-16T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18909"},"modified":"2017-06-16T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:22:28","slug":"used-coffee-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18909","title":{"rendered":"Used coffee cups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was at my favorite Starbucks (the one with two Pok\u00e9Stops) and saw this confusing container:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1733-1-e1497618106550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1733-1-e1497618106550-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1733-1-e1497618106550-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1733-1-e1497618106550-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1733-1-e1497618106550-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1733-1-e1497618106550.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears that Starbucks is convincing its green customers that they are recycling by sending empty dirty coffee cups to the landfill.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a better picture I did not take:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1737.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1737-600x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1737-600x283.jpg 600w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1737-150x71.jpg 150w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1737-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1737-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1737.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Relying on customers to know what is and isn&#8217;t recyclable is futile as one mistake renders the recyclable bag useless.  The can has the instructions &#8220;Some Day, everything will be recyclable.  Until then, let&#8217;s sort it out together.  Thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This story goes into much more detail into the problem as well as hints at the reality that much of what people recycle still winds up at the landfill.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wastedive.com\/news\/recyclable-cups-from-starbucks-and-tim-hortons-heading-to-landfills\/408394\/\">http:\/\/www.wastedive.com\/news\/recyclable-cups-from-starbucks-and-tim-hortons-heading-to-landfills\/408394\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The charade does employ people however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was at my favorite Starbucks (the one with two Pok\u00e9Stops) and saw this confusing container: It appears that Starbucks is convincing its green customers that they are recycling by sending empty dirty coffee cups to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18909\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18918,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions\/18918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}