{"id":5365,"date":"2014-01-29T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2014-01-29T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:31:45","slug":"were-already-regulated-to-death-says-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/were-already-regulated-to-death-says-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re already regulated to death, says reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last Tuesday\u2019s Council meeting, the garbage bag issue ended up being referred back to staff for more information.<br \/>\nFrankly, I fail to see the merit of this exercise of using clear bags. If one can use opaque bags for the disposal of certain items and then place that bag into a clear one, what is really the point. I only can visualize the use of MORE plastic! Right?<br \/>\nI recently purchased a box of 100 black bags. Twice a month pick-up, of two bags (most times only one), will take more than two years to use my current supply. Therefore, I will fail the test for the mandatory compliance of January 1, 2015.<br \/>\nSeems to me that we are being regulated to death and I am voicing my opposition to this programme.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosalyn A. Gonsalves<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last Tuesday\u2019s Council meeting, the garbage bag issue ended up being referred back to staff for more information. Frankly, I fail to see the merit of this exercise of using clear bags. If one can use opaque bags for the disposal of certain items and then place that bag into a clear one, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}