{"id":78735,"date":"2025-08-25T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78735"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:07:31","slug":"plastic-bag-use-is-on-the-rise-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/plastic-bag-use-is-on-the-rise-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic bag use is on the rise. Here\u2019s why"},"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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1H3DIq.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A plastic shopping bag sits discarded on a beach\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">England<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/plastic-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">plastic bag<\/a> purchases rose by seven per cent to 437 million in the last year, marking the first increase in a decade since the introduction of charges.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/plastic-bag-use-is-on-the-rise-here-s-why\/ar-AA1L7Kf0?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68ac7318f9fb4a318659090c8aa171c3&amp;ei=71\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>England&#8216;s\u00a0plastic bag purchases rose by seven per cent to 437 million in the last year, marking the first increase in a decade&#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-78735","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\/78735","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=78735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78736,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78735\/revisions\/78736"}],"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=78735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}