{"id":1944,"date":"2005-02-12T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-12T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:40:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T11:40:23","slug":"1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/12\/1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Althouse Speaks The Noggle Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We here in the Noggle Household recycle a lot.  But instead of paying several dollars a month to have the locally-contracted waste removal company take a select number of items, categorized just so and following these said rules so that the uncaring garbagemen can dump the recycleables into a single truck and drive it to the dump, we separate a our goods and sneak them to another municipality&#8217;s recycling center.  We can recycle a greater number of items this way, for the same cost in gas, and we&#8217;re further abstracted from the corner-cutting that will bury our recycleables in a landfill.<\/p>\n<p>But Ann Althouse <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/recycling-in-madison.html\" target=\"_new\">speaks the real reason<\/a> we don&#8217;t put our recycling at the curb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good thing we drank a lot of milk this week so there are plenty of bulky milk containers to cover up all the wine and beer bottles that conveniently sink to the bottom &#8212; otherwise the locals might think ill of us &#8212; but then they&#8217;d probably think ill of us if we had a lot of diet soda cans &#8212; or even soda cans, period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had to buy a pickup truck to ferry my empties to the recycling facility.  Even so, I don&#8217;t expect that the neighbors think the clinking in the opaque black bags is milk bottles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We here in the Noggle Household recycle a lot. But instead of paying several dollars a month to have the locally-contracted waste removal company take a select number of items, categorized just so and following these said rules so that the uncaring garbagemen can dump the recycleables into a single truck and drive it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20578,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/20578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}