{"id":84893,"date":"2025-12-12T01:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84893\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:55:16","slug":"reducing-trash-in-houston-dec-11-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84893\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing trash in Houston (Dec. 11, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday\u2019s show: We examine steps Texas is taking to reduce waste and other takeaways from a new report called: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/texas\/center\/resources\/trash-in-america\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trash in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"> Also this hour: We talk with Brad Pritchett, the new CEO of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/equalitytexas.org\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Equality Texas<\/a>, the statewide nonprofit advocating for LGBTQIA+ Texans.<\/p>\n<p>And we learn about a new documentary chronicling the Bum Phillips era of the old Houston Oilers, called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/luckyeightfilms.com\/luv-ya-bum\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Luv Ya, Bum!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday\u2019s show: We examine steps Texas is taking to reduce waste and other takeaways from a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[40784,29494,4977,56,58,4978,57,40785,1183,21903,66,40786,223,4979,4990],"class_list":["post-84893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bum-phillips","tag-equality-texas","tag-full-show","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-oilers","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtqia","tag-local","tag-luv-ya-bum","tag-news","tag-shows","tag-trash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}