{"id":10827,"date":"2025-12-16T14:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10827"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:41:31","slug":"the-dignity-bag-hopes-to-change-how-cities-see-can-collectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10827","title":{"rendered":"The Dignity Bag Hopes To Change How Cities See Can Collectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Many people don\u2019t feel compelled to properly dispose of their recyclables, especially when they are out and about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Out of sight, out of mind, right? But\u00a0<em>someone<\/em>\u00a0has to collect and properly sort that trash and get it into the hands of facilities that reclaim recyclable materials. In cities like Montreal, there are legions of collectors who collect and recycle items like aluminum beverage cans and glass bottles. These \u201cbinners,\u201d as they are called in Canada, go unnoticed, unthanked, and play a vital role in the urban human ecosystem.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/the-dignity-bag-hopes-to-change-how-cities-see-can-collectors\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people don\u2019t feel compelled to properly dispose of their recyclables, especially when they are out and about.\u00a0 Out of sight, out of mind, right? But\u00a0someone\u00a0has to collect and properly sort that trash and get it into the hands of facilities that reclaim recyclable materials. In cities like Montreal, there are legions of collectors who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}