{"id":8448,"date":"2014-01-14T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2014-04-08T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T21:57:16","slug":"employees-recycling-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2014\/01\/14\/employees-recycling-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees Recycling Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees can recycle batteries from <b>work<\/b> and <b>home<\/b> with a <a title=\"Captains of Sustainability\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/you\/captain\/\" target=\"_blank\">Captain of Sustainability.<\/a>\u00a0Bellevue College has begun a new program in which employees can recycle their batteries from the office and home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alkaline Batteries ONLY<\/li>\n<li>No lithium-ion batteries (laptops)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How does recycling batteries help?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alkaline batteries contain\u00a0heavy metals\u00a0(mercury, lead,\u00a0cadmium, nickel.) At the landfill, these harmful metals contaminate water and air, damaging the earth and health. Help the environment by simply recycling your batteries.<\/p>\n<p><b>How can I recycle batteries?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Captains help the College dispose of batteries properly. Captains will collect your batteries and dispose of them with Facilities Operations. Over 40 Captains of Sustainability lead efforts across campus. Interested in solving environmental issues? Email <a href=\"mailto:sustainability@bellevuecollege.edu\" target=\"_blank\">sustainability@bellevuecollege.edu<\/a>\u00a0to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><b>Need to Recycle Something?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t know what to do with that refrigerator? Mattress? See King County\u2019s \u201cWhat do I do with\u2026?\u201d page at <a href=\"http:\/\/your.kingcounty.gov\/solidwaste\/wdidw\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/your.kingcounty.gov\/solidwaste\/wdidw\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I recycle batteries?  How about mattresses or refrigerators?  See how our Captains of Sustainability or King County can help you dispose of Hard-to-Recycle items better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,85,312,216],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-waste","tag-bellevue-college","tag-captains-of-sustainability","tag-recycle-batteries","tag-sustainability-at-bellevue-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8519,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions\/8519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}