{"id":5009,"date":"2014-03-05T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2014-03-05T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:00:29","slug":"question-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/03\/05\/question-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Energy Savings from Aluminum Can Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/03\/bottle-isolated.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5018\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/03\/bottle-isolated-113x300.png\" alt=\"bottle-isolated\" width=\"90\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>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>In this week&#8217;s Recycling Mythbusters blog post, we discuss the benefits of recycling various materials. <span style=\"color: #008000\">If you were to recycle one aluminum can, for how many hours would the energy savings power a television?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">Answer<\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">Recycling just one aluminum can will produce enough energy savings to power a television for three hours.<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">The overall energy savings from recycling cans is about 95% over creating a new can.<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">To learn more about the benefits of recycling different materials, visit the Ecologue:<\/div>\n<div>Recycling just one aluminum can will produce enough energy savings to power a television for three hours.<\/div>\n<div>The overall energy savings from recycling cans is about 95% over creating a new can.<\/div>\n<div>To learn more about the benefits of recycling different materials, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/2014\/03\/recycling-mythbusters-recycling-vs-landfilling\/\">Recycling Mythbusters blog<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>And congratulations to Jessica Collins for being the first to correctly answer the question!<\/div>\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 In this week&#8217;s Recycling Mythbusters blog post, we discuss [&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-5009","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\/5009","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=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}