{"id":328471,"date":"2026-07-03T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328471\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:22:08","slug":"dont-throw-it-away-your-fourth-of-july-flags-can-fly-again-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328471\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t throw it away: Your Fourth of July flags can fly again | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Fourth of July, Key Biscayne residents are being asked to think twice before tossing their holiday flags and garlands in the trash. A community resiliency effort led by A Zero Waste Culture, the Rotary Club of Key Biscayne and Flying High for Haiti is collecting used flags and garlands to give them a second life.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is simple: collect, reuse, fly. After the Fourth, residents save their flags and garlands, the partner groups turn them into kite kits, and families later build and fly the kites together at a future community event.<\/p>\n<p>On July 4, members of these organizations will have a tent at the end of the parade route for residents to drop off the flags and garlands there<\/p>\n<p>Residents can also drop off flags and garlands, only flags and garlands, please, at a Zero Waste Culture tent from 9 a.m.-noon, on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From a celebration to a community moment,&#8221; organizers say. &#8220;Together, we fly higher.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Fourth of July, Key Biscayne residents are being asked to think twice before tossing their holiday flags&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17382,130834,76223,135603,126,123,125,124,5408,135604,893],"class_list":["post-328471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-a-zero-waste-culture","tag-environmental-consciousness","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-fourth-of-july-flags","tag-key-biscayne","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-recycling","tag-recycling-flags","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}