{"id":2803,"date":"2007-09-26T07:49:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/news_you_can_reuse.html"},"modified":"2007-09-26T07:49:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T15:49:01","slug":"news_you_can_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/news_you_can_re.html","title":{"rendered":"News You Can Reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the City Council&#8217;s new bill banning the pilfering of curbside recyclables, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/26\/nyregion\/26recycling.html?ex=1348545600&#038;en=29e579c80347664f&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">the Times fears to tread<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/09262007\/news\/regionalnews\/trah_clash.htm\">the Post understands what we most want to know<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sanitation officials say their staff has witnessed unmarked trucks with out-of-state plates carting materials meant to be recycled. The current penalty for taking recyclables is only $100. Since January, 128 summonses have been issued.<\/p>\n<p>The new law is aimed solely at those who come with trucks or cars &#8212; not people who simply rummage through trash looking for treasures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a bill that goes after the occasional garbage pilferer,&#8221; [Councilman Michael] McMahon said, &#8220;or somebody who is looking for a new couch for their college room or picking up recyclables with a push cart.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the City Council&#8217;s new bill banning the pilfering of curbside recyclables, where the Times fears to tread, the Post understands what we most want to know: Sanitation officials say their staff has witnessed unmarked trucks with out-of-state plates carting materials meant to be recycled. The current penalty for taking recyclables is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}