{"id":13690,"date":"2020-01-27T13:07:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/sustainability-tip-of-the-week-28\/"},"modified":"2020-01-27T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T18:07:05","slug":"sustainability-tip-of-the-week-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/sustainability-tip-of-the-week-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Tip of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Sustainability Tip of the Week <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">A Simple Wish for a Better Tomorrow<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103602\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/plastic-bag-ban-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that New Yorkers use more than 23 billion plastic bags a year? That\u2019s around 1,000 bags per person annually. When we improperly dispose them, plastic bags create pollution, often seen stuck in trees or floating in our waterways. They pose threats to fish and wildlife, clog machinery at recycling facilities, and litter the pristine outdoor places we love and enjoy spending time in with our friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Starting March 1, 2020, a new plastic bag waste reduction law will take effect in New York State.\u00a0 Here is an easy way to prepare using old t-shirts:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/266942\/t-shirt-bag<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have a sewing machine? cut strips at the bottom of the t-shirt and tie them:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Bzkzm1C1d2\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tealouandsweetpea.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/27\/diy-no-sew-fringe-tshirt-tote\/\">DIY No sew fringe Tshirt tote&nbsp;bag<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;DIY No sew fringe Tshirt tote&nbsp;bag&#8221; &#8212; Tealou &amp; Sweetpea\" src=\"https:\/\/tealouandsweetpea.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/27\/diy-no-sew-fringe-tshirt-tote\/embed\/#?secret=86oHl5oqcD#?secret=Bzkzm1C1d2\" data-secret=\"Bzkzm1C1d2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Faculty, staff and students please share your sustainable ideas for our weekly tip to j.coons@hvcc.edu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:07:05 +0000 by\u00a0j.coons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sustainability Tip of the Week A Simple Wish for a Better Tomorrow Did you know that New Yorkers use&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}