{"id":462,"date":"2018-01-17T23:23:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T04:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=462"},"modified":"2018-01-17T23:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T04:23:51","slug":"polk-recycling-may-become-more-customer-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Polk Recycling  May Become More Customer Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polk commissioners have directed county staffers to come up with a new approach to selling the new curbside recycling system.\n<\/p>\n<p>Last year Polk solid waste officials made major changes to the system\u2014no glass, almost no plastic, fewer kinds of paper\u2013and created a public backlash.\n<\/p>\n<p>The main problem was that the changes were poorly communicated and even after it was clear there were problems, solid waste officials stubbornly refused to improve.\n<\/p>\n<p>That problem was pointed out in this blog, and a separate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/news\/20171125\/palmer-curbside-recycling-gets-more-confusing\">column p<\/a>ublished in The Ledger.\n<\/p>\n<p>That led to a work session earlier this month in which commissioners said this situation has to change.\n<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because some residents had become so confused or disgusted by the new recycling rules that they quit recycling even though they generate plenty of material to recycle.\n<\/p>\n<p>Watch for a new recycling information campaign soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk commissioners have directed county staffers to come up with a new approach to selling the new curbside recycling system. Last year Polk solid waste officials made major changes to the system\u2014no glass, almost no plastic, fewer kinds of paper\u2013and created a public backlash. The main problem was that the changes were poorly communicated and [&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-462","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\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}