{"id":73231,"date":"2020-02-05T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73231"},"modified":"2020-02-03T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T22:54:11","slug":"if-you-signal-virtue-in-the-woods-but-nobody-is-listening-did-it-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73231","title":{"rendered":"If You Signal Virtue In The Woods, But Nobody Is Listening, Did It Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Baltimore admits it hasn&#8217;t actually recycled glass in seven years&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/maryland\/baltimore-county\/bs-md-co-baltimore-county-glass-recycling-20200131-20200201-7rjeujm3vfes3nvxf67z3if6q4-story.html?fbclid=IwAR39YGTYe9xWcA0s4mFOvQbtSosHRJqHE65Ycd-a4E2uC7TkaCx8lHmixPY\">tells everyone to keep separating their trash<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Steve Lafferty, county sustainability officer, said it\u2019s true the county has not recycled the material since 2013, the year it also opened a $23 million single-stream recycling facility in Cockeysville. Lafferty was hired to the newly created sustainability position in September 2019&#8230;Over the years, the county\u2019s Department of Public Works encountered technical and financial limitations that meant it could no longer recycle glass at county municipal facilities.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But while separating glass from garbage won&#8217;t result in any recycling at all, it <em>will <\/em>keep a bunch of public employees working, and donating dues to their public employee union, thus keeping money coming to the Maryland Democrat Party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore admits it hasn&#8217;t actually recycled glass in seven years&#8230; &#8230;but tells everyone to keep separating their trash: Steve Lafferty, county sustainability officer, said it\u2019s true the county has not recycled the material since 2013, the year it also opened a $23 million single-stream recycling facility in Cockeysville. Lafferty was hired to the newly created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,49,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-science","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73232,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73231\/revisions\/73232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}