{"id":9638,"date":"2015-01-28T17:35:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2015-01-28T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:35:48","slug":"9638","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/9638\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: 2015 will bring changes to your curbside garbage pickup. January 15, 2015)<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nI currently buy dog food in large bags.<br \/>\nThese bags cannot go in the blue box because they are heavily waxed, so I use them to put out the garbage. When the \u201cClear Bag\u201d program starts, I\u2019m not supposed to re-use these bags. I\u2019m to stuff them into a clear bag to throw out.  How is this helpful?<br \/>\nThe new initiative also says \u201cyou can still use used grocery bags for waste collection.\u201d<br \/>\nThe grocery bags are to ensure privacy, but then they must be seen inside a clear plastic bag for pick-up. What exactly does that accomplish?<br \/>\nOther 2015 changes refer to \u201cvolunteer residents\u201d to tell people about composters.<br \/>\nPeople who want to compost are doing it. To imply people aren\u2019t aware of composting is quite a haughty stance. It\u2019s like saying \u201cwe should have volunteers educate folks door-to-door about the health benefits of exercise.\u201d<br \/>\nSurely then everyone who doesn\u2019t exercise will start.<br \/>\nBeing in opposition to a green initiative is not good optics, but not every green idea is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S. Thompson<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: 2015 will bring changes to your curbside garbage pickup. January 15, 2015) I currently buy dog food in large bags. These bags cannot go in the blue box because they are heavily waxed, so I use them to put out the garbage. When the \u201cClear Bag\u201d program starts, I\u2019m not supposed to re-use these [&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-9638","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\/9638","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=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}