{"id":4558,"date":"2014-01-29T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2014-01-29T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:00:06","slug":"question-of-the-week-plastic-clamshells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/01\/29\/question-of-the-week-plastic-clamshells\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Plastic Clamshells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4559\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/01\/bottle-isolated1-113x300.png\" alt=\"bottle-isolated\" width=\"113\" height=\"300\" \/>Time for our Question of the Week!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333\">The first person to respond with the correct answer will win\u00a0a reusable 20 oz OSU water bottle!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333\">Submit your answer here (<strong>\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below<\/strong>) or on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/osurecycling\">Facebook<\/a> page. Only one post per person, please.<\/p>\n<h3>Question of the Week<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">What are three reasons why plastic clamshells are not commonly accepted as recyclable material at collection facilities?<\/span> (Hint: Our <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/tag\/recycling-mythbusters\/\">Recycling Mythbusters<\/a> blog \u00a0dealt with plastic recyclables this week.)<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>There are several reasons why plastic clamshells are not accepted in commingled recycling, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are not one of the four shapes of recyclable containers in Corvallis and OSU, which are bottles, tubs, jugs, and jars.<\/li>\n<li>They are very inconsistent with what kind of plastic they are made from and there isn\u2019t a quick and easy way to sort them.<\/li>\n<li>They have little benefit economically and environmentally; essentially, the amount of energy and resources going into recycling the clamshells is far greater than that of simply creating it anew.<\/li>\n<li>They commonly have food contamination and it is difficult to tell whether or not the container has been cleaned or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due to these facts, there is little or no market value for clamshells, and the items may be labeled as trash at collection facilities if suitable markets don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more in our most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/tag\/recycling-mythbusters\/\">Recycling Mythbusters<\/a> blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for our Question of the Week! The first person to respond with the correct answer will win\u00a0a reusable 20 oz OSU water bottle! Submit your answer here (\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below) or on our\u00a0Facebook page. Only one post per person, please. Question of the Week What are three reasons why plastic clamshells are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292115,1292119],"tags":[626631,608247],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-waste-reduction","tag-recycling-question-of-the-week","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}