{"id":60,"date":"2004-10-06T23:04:45","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T23:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2004\/10\/06\/crush-those-bottles\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:14:48","slug":"crush-those-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/10\/06\/crush-those-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Crush those bottles!"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s a difficult habit to get out of. You finish your drink, screw the lid back on the bottle and throw it in the bin. The trouble is that the bottles are incredibly strong when sealed and are very difficult to crush. If you’re not recycling (and we haven’t been up until now as there isn’t a ‘plastic bank’ near us by foot) then at least save some space in the landfill<\/a> by crushing the bottle before sealing it up again!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s a difficult habit to get out of. You finish your drink, screw the lid back on the bottle and throw it in the bin. The trouble is that the bottles are incredibly strong when sealed and are very difficult to crush. If you’re not recycling (and we haven’t been up until now as there […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"local","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-home","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9840,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/01\/17\/9840\/","url_meta":{"origin":60,"position":0},"title":"When are we going to\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"17 January 2023","format":"status","excerpt":"When are we going to accept that mayonnaise in a squeezy bottle is a design failure?","rel":"","context":"In "Snippets"","block_context":{"text":"Snippets","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/category\/snippets\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/09\/beer-and-games-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":60,"position":1},"title":"Beer and games night","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"9 April 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"To kick off the Easter weekend, Mat, Trevor and Stuart popped round for a games and beers night. 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