{"id":402,"date":"2023-11-11T17:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T21:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=402"},"modified":"2023-11-11T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T21:29:01","slug":"disposability-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/11\/11\/disposability-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Disposability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paper-based goods: paper bags in shops, the paper cups and paper to-go boxes in the dining commons, tissues, toilet paper, and paper towels. These objects are designed to be disposable; they can rarely withstand a second use as they begin to disintegrate after the first. They are <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">marketed as convenient and hygienic. Hygienic objects are meant to be disposed of, it is only hygienic if it is away from us. It becomes unhygienic<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">once it is used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Where did she come from, where did she go:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Statista, \u201cthe United States imported 3.28 million metric tons of packaging paper and paperboard in 2021.\u201d The graph, also from Statista, shows the \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">production volume of paper and paperboard in selected countries worldwide in 2010 and 2021\u201d. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As shown in the infographic, landfills are largely filled with paper and paper products.<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-11-at-4.19.00-PM.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/11\/Anatomy-of-the-Landfill.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper-based goods: paper bags in shops, the paper cups and paper to-go boxes in the dining commons, tissues, toilet paper, and paper towels. These objects are designed to be disposable; they can rarely withstand a second use as they begin to disintegrate after the first. They are marketed as convenient and hygienic. Hygienic objects are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disposability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"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\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}