{"id":875,"date":"2018-10-02T20:38:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T04:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/?p=875"},"modified":"2022-10-02T19:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T03:44:56","slug":"environmental-action-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Action Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C.O.L.O.R. has partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FullCircleToursSriLanka\">Full Circle Tours<\/a>, a Sri Lanka based tourism company that donates a portion of their proceeds back to the communities they operate in.<\/p>\n<p>Our first partnership program will truly be a \u201cFull Circle\u201d project, it addresses current concerns over one use plastic straws and leverages that concern to fund recycling projects and environmental awareness in highly impacted environmentally sensitive communities in Sri Lanka<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>C.O.L.O.R. will be selling reusable metal straws to donors in the U.S.. Funds raised by the sale of the straws will then fund the creation of \u201crecycling caddy\u2019s\u201d in highly trafficked areas in Sri Lanka. The caddy\u2019s will have bins that teach recycling and sorting; trash, plastics, and glass.<\/p>\n<p>But wait it gets better!!! The bins will be decorated with art depicting sea life scenery created from rubbish collected from local beaches.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to no only make a teaching tool for recycling, but art that awakens the consciousness regarding environmental impact and sustainability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.O.L.O.R. has partnered with Full Circle Tours, a Sri Lanka based tourism company that donates a portion of their proceeds back to the communities they operate in. Our first partnership program will truly be a \u201cFull Circle\u201d project, it addresses&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-srilanka","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}