{"id":1016,"date":"2008-09-10T04:42:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T09:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2008-09-10T04:42:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T09:42:31","slug":"recycling-it-must-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/10\/recycling-it-must-be-done","title":{"rendered":"Recycling, it must be done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m used to separating my trash. Recyclables, non-recyclables, never greens because I don&#8217;t dig gardens. It came as a surprise to me that here in Malaysia, recycling is not compulsory, and all trash just hits the landfills.<\/p>\n<p>I am however, pleased to say that for the last couple of months, the trash has been separated. Not only has in been separated, its been mounting in the back yard, needing attention. <\/p>\n<p>I gave it its due attention today. Behold, the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&#038;hl=en&#038;msa=0&#038;msid=113462352056242231343.00044f82eff5f0463a15a&#038;ll=3.08588,101.642858&#038;spn=0.005228,0.009613&#038;z=17\">PJ Recycling Centre<\/a> (thanks to @nazroll from Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>All the newspapers, plastic containers\/bottles, aluminium drink cans. All recycled! And you know what&#8217;s amusing? Its not free. They <b>pay<\/b> you to take away your trash! A trunk load of newspapers, and 3 bags of cans and bottles, garnered me RM38. You&#8217;d dream of the city council in Victoria paying you for trash ;)<\/p>\n<p>They however, <b>don&#8217;t take glass bottles<\/b>. Does anyone know how I can recycle glass? Typically, I have quite a bit of it &#8211; think used Scotch, wine, and champagne bottles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Recycling%2C%20it%20must%20be%20done&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F09%2F10%2Frecycling-it-must-be-done&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Recyclables, non-recyclables, never greens because I don&#8217;t dig gardens. It came as a surprise to me that here in Malaysia, recycling is not compulsory, and all trash just hits the landfills. I am however, pleased to say that for the last couple of months, the trash has been separated. 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The story, of course, never ran. Today I see that Maxis is already recycling spectrum that they own for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/19\/of-comments-to-evolution","url_meta":{"origin":1016,"position":1},"title":"Of comments to Evolution","date":"19\/5\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Argh! The spatial way hit lwn, and the comments have landed not on any list, but my inbox. nautilus-list is good for this sort of thing - not complaining, but possibly giving new ideas for improvement. If there are any PC Gemilang users needing to upgrade to FC2 from FC1,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2713,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/05\/04\/najib-government1malaysia-tech-report-card","url_meta":{"origin":1016,"position":2},"title":"Najib government\/1Malaysia tech report card","date":"4\/5\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As Malaysia goes to the polls tomorrow, I thought I'd go back and look at what tech goodness has been achieved by the Najib government after the 12th general elections. 1Malaysia Email project (myemail) awarded to Tricubes (delisted from stock exchange) to provide email to every Malaysian. I wroteabout it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Malaysia&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8560\/8703864818_ef86a3de4f_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":815,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/08\/free-and-open-source-software-use-and-production-by-the-brazilian-government","url_meta":{"origin":1016,"position":3},"title":"Free and Open Source Software: Use and Production by the Brazilian Government","date":"8\/5\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"First up, I want to say, I'm truly impressed with Brazil. One day I will visit this amazing place, and spread the good word of open source with projects that are close to my heart: MySQL, OpenOffice.org, Fedora, and in due time, a lot more. This is a live-blog, from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2176,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/09\/07\/upgrade-to-lion","url_meta":{"origin":1016,"position":4},"title":"Upgrade to Lion","date":"7\/9\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It seemed like only a year ago, I upgraded my laptop to run Snow Leopard. And now I've gone on to getting Lion (didn't take almost a year to upgrade -- good sign?). I've found some issues (and I've only used it for less than a day), and here are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3325,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/05\/08\/community-leadership-summit-2017-keynote-notes-cls17-oscon","url_meta":{"origin":1016,"position":5},"title":"Community Leadership Summit 2017 &#8211; Keynote notes #cls17 #oscon","date":"8\/5\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are my rough notes from Community Leadership Summit 2017 keynotes. From what I could see there was video being recorded, so I expect that these will be published soon. I made notes, some people have already shared slides (and I've linked to them). 5 Keys to a Successful Contributor\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Opensource&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"CLS17","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4168\/34354720952_c420c9d4d4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}