{"id":46941,"date":"2023-07-03T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=46941"},"modified":"2023-07-03T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:25:23","slug":"new-zealand-becomes-first-country-to-ban-thin-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/new-zealand-becomes-first-country-to-ban-thin-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand becomes first country to ban thin plastic bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_46942\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46942\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46942\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apples, peachs, tomatoes, pears, cucumbers, avocado packed in plastic bags after shopping at local eco market in Marmaris, Turkey<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-zealand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0has become the first country to implement a ban on thin\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/plastic-bags\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">plastic bags<\/a> commonly used by supermarket customers to collect fruit and vegetables. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/new-zealand-becomes-first-country-to-ban-thin-plastic-bags\/ar-AA1dmJcr?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=ef6ae88b27674a39b2aeb8af446ca7f3&amp;ei=86\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>New Zealand\u00a0has become the first country to implement a ban on thin\u00a0plastic bags commonly used by supermarket customers to collect fruit and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46943,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46941\/revisions\/46943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}