{"id":4852,"date":"2014-02-20T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2014-02-20T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:00:20","slug":"question-of-the-week-triangle-on-plastic-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/02\/20\/question-of-the-week-triangle-on-plastic-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Triangle on plastic items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4853\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/02\/bottle-isolated-113x300.png\" alt=\"bottle-isolated\" width=\"90\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 20 oz. OSU water bottle.<\/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>On many plastic items, there is a number surrounded by a triangle. <span style=\"color: #008000\">What does this symbol mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">The type of plastic used.<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">Each number correlates with a different polymer of plastic. This does not, however, tell whether or not the plastic is recyclable.<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">To learn more about this system, visit our blog: http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/2014\/01\/recycling-mythbusters-the-recycling-symbol\/<\/div>\n<p>The type of plastic used.<\/p>\n<p>Each number correlates with a different polymer of plastic. This does not, however, tell whether or not the plastic is recyclable.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this system, visit our segment in the<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/2014\/01\/recycling-mythbusters-the-recycling-symbol\/\"> Recycling Mythbusters<\/a> series, where we delve more deeply into the topic.<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to Walker Holden for being the first to correctly answer this week&#8217;s Question of the Week!<\/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 20 oz. OSU water bottle. Submit your answer here (\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below) or on our\u00a0Facebook page. Only one post per person, please. Question of the Week On many plastic items, there is a number surrounded [&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-4852","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:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}