{"id":376,"date":"2017-10-03T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=376"},"modified":"2017-10-03T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T12:30:37","slug":"complaints-reduce-recycling-cart-delay-what-plastic-to-recycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Complaints Reduce Recycling Cart Delay; What Plastic To Recycle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the Polk County Commission heard enough from their constituents to force Ana Wood, Polk&#8217;s waste and recycling director, to back off on her original plan to hold off delivery of additional recycling carts until next year for people who for a variety of reasons didn&#8217;t turn in a response card last March.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release that went out this week, anyone who doesn&#8217;t have a recycling cart and asks for one can get it by Nov. 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>To get a cart\u2014this applies only to residential customers in unincorporated Polk County\u2014email <a href=\"mailto:polkwastewise@polk-county.net\">polkwastewise@polk-county.net<\/a> or call 863-284-4319.\n<\/p>\n<p>Once you get a cart, you might be confused about what kinds of plastics to put or not put into it.\n<\/p>\n<p>Below are two photos to help with that.\n<\/p>\n<p>The top photo shows which kind of plastic container you should recycling under the new rules.\n<\/p>\n<p>The bottom photo shows what kind of plastic containers you shouldn&#8217;t put in your cart.\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy recycling.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100317_1230_ComplaintsR1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100317_1230_ComplaintsR2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the Polk County Commission heard enough from their constituents to force Ana Wood, Polk&#8217;s waste and recycling director, to back off on her original plan to hold off delivery of additional recycling carts until next year for people who for a variety of reasons didn&#8217;t turn in a response card last March. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}