{"id":2251,"date":"2026-07-25T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/scientists-put-the-recycling-is-a-distraction-claim-to-the-test\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:00:35","slug":"scientists-put-the-recycling-is-a-distraction-claim-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/scientists-put-the-recycling-is-a-distraction-claim-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists put the \u201crecycling is a distraction\u201d claim to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling, greener diets, and other personal climate choices do not seem to distract people from supporting major environmental reforms. A four-year study of nearly 2,800 Australians found that these habits neither increased nor reduced later political engagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ScienceDaily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling, greener diets, and other personal climate choices do not seem to distract people from supporting major environmental reforms. A four-year study of nearly 2,800 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}