{"id":656,"date":"2008-06-07T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=656"},"modified":"2008-06-07T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T23:19:00","slug":"the-bornholmian-bag-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-bornholmian-bag-model\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bornholmian Bag Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evaekeblad\/345146792\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/136\/345146792_deef2e1c37_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evaekeblad\/345146792\/\">Old batteries<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/evaekeblad\/\">Eva the Weaver<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I read an interesting article about <a href=\"http:\/\/politiken.dk\/tjek\/dagligliv\/husholdning\/article520006.ece\">used battery collection<\/a> in the Danish newspaper <i>Politiken<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the city council of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bornholm\">Bornholm<\/a> has invented a revolutionary model to collect used batteries, which has led to sky-high collection rates.<\/p>\n<p>The model, called <i>Den Bornholmske Posemodel<\/i> &#8220;The Bornholmian Bag Model&#8221;, is actually very simple.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of requiring people to take their batteries to recycling stations or Ikea, people can just put their used batteries in a plastic bag (not a special one, any one will do) and put it on top of their wheelie bin when it&#8217;s taken out for collection anyway.  The binmen will then put the plastic bag into a special container.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the simple ideas are the best!<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old batteries Originally uploaded by Eva the Weaver I read an interesting article about used battery collection in the Danish newspaper Politiken. Apparently, the city council of Bornholm has invented a revolutionary model to collect used batteries, which has led to sky-high collection rates. The model, called Den Bornholmske Posemodel &#8220;The Bornholmian Bag Model&#8221;, is actually very simple. Instead of requiring people to take their batteries to recycling stations or Ikea, people can just put their used batteries in a plastic bag (not a special one, any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denmark","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}