{"id":74173,"date":"2025-04-06T19:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74173"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:34:26","slug":"plastic-bag-loophole-means-billions-still-being-used-despite-10p-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/06\/plastic-bag-loophole-means-billions-still-being-used-despite-10p-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic bag loophole means billions still being used despite 10p levy"},"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><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1CoW3e.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Analysis by Development Economics finds online fashion retailers delivered 941 million plastic bags to UK shoppers in 2024 - Paul Bradbury\/OJO Images RF\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a billion plastic bags are still being used in the UK each year because of an online delivery loophole, according to a new analysis.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/nearly-a-billion-plastic-bags-still-used-in-uk-annually-because-of-loophole\/ar-AA1Cp2Yw?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=d35b98b95650493bfd3411f68040b669&amp;ei=16\">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>&nbsp; Nearly a billion plastic bags are still being used in the UK each year because of an online delivery loophole, according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74173","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\/2025\/04\/Plastic-bags.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74173","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=74173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74175,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74173\/revisions\/74175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}