{"id":237,"date":"2023-10-21T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=237"},"modified":"2023-10-21T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T19:22:21","slug":"responsibility-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/10\/21\/responsibility-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I recycle, I take personal responsibility to make sure I am conscious of what I can recycle. This is something that I do to help the work of those who then have to take it from the front of my house. Especially when it comes to plastics, I check the recycling number of each item to ensure that they can be taken to the recycling center. I also take it upon myself to make sure that the plastic is as clean as possible, removing any food and rinseing it off. I try to remember to remove the labels, but I do not always remember. This is the responsibility that I have given myself because I can, meaning I have the time and resources available to me for me to take these extra steps. The moment that the recycling leaves the front of my house I no longer feel responsible for it. I do not know if my efforts help in any way or if it all just ends up in landfills. I have not researched how my recycling center follows through and how they process the plastic. Because I do not have access to the recycling I don’t hold any responsibility for it, the kind of \u201cout of sight out of mind\u201d mindset. I think that taking the responsibility of sorting recycling is not something that everyone can do. I believe that there should be more transparency on what happens once your recycling or trash is picked up. I think that people would be more inclined to do more if they were able to see that it makes a difference. In my years of recycling I have not thought much about waste workers, I have only become more aware of them because of my own research and discussions like the ones that we have in class. I do not know what their work is like, I can only imagine from what I have heard and read. I imagine that their work involves a lot of sorting, each type of plastic is recycled in different ways and there are entirely different procedures for other materials like paper and cardboard. I also think that there is so much that they have to throw away due to them not being able to process it.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I recycle, I take personal responsibility to make sure I am conscious of what I can recycle. This is something that I do to help the work of those who then have to take it from the front of my house. Especially when it comes to plastics, I check the recycling number of each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responsibility-and-waste-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}