{"id":6334,"date":"2014-08-27T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2014-08-27T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T01:00:01","slug":"question-of-the-week-fibers-in-paper-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/08\/27\/question-of-the-week-fibers-in-paper-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Recycling Fibers in Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/08\/ChicoBag-win-me.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6335\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/08\/ChicoBag-win-me-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"ChicoBag-win-me\" width=\"226\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2014\/08\/ChicoBag-win-me-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2014\/08\/ChicoBag-win-me.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>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 OSU cold cup (with straw).<\/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>Each time paper is recycled, the fibers in it become shorter. <span style=\"color: #008000\">According to the EPA, how many times could the fibers from a single sheet of paper be recycled before they become unusable?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Paper fibers may be recycled 5 &#8211; 7 times, according to the EPA. Afterward, the fibers become too short to be reused.<\/p>\n<p>It is for this reason that paper napkins are not recyclable, as they are made from fibers which are at the end of their lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to Valeria for winning this week&#8217;s Question!<\/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 OSU cold cup (with straw). Submit your answer here (\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below) or on our\u00a0Facebook page. Only one post per person, please. Question of the Week Each time paper is recycled, the fibers in it [&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-6334","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\/6334","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=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}