{"id":10581,"date":"2019-10-03T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T09:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10581"},"modified":"2019-10-03T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T09:35:34","slug":"single-use-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/single-use-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-Use Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that India would\nphase out single use plastic by 2022. However, there would be no blanket ban on\nsingle-use plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Single-Use Plastics:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Single-use plastics, often also referred to as\ndisposable plastics, include items intended to be used only once before they\nare thrown away or recycled.<\/li><li>They are commonly used for plastic packaging.\nThese include, among other items, grocery bags, food packaging, bottles,\nstraws, containers, cups and cutlery.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Global Single use\nplastic Waste Generation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>According to UNEP,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2015, plastic packaging waste accounted for\n47% of the plastic waste generated globally, with half of that coming from\nAsia.<\/li><li>China was the largest worldwide generator of\nplastic packaging. The USA was the largest generator of plastic packaging waste\non a per-capita basis, followed by Japan and the EU.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that India would phase out single use plastic by 2022. However, there would be no blanket ban on single-use plastics. Facts: Single-Use Plastics: Single-use plastics, often also referred to as disposable plastics, include items intended to be used only once before they are thrown away or recycled. They&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/single-use-plastic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Single-Use Plastic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4251],"class_list":["post-10581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-single-used-plastics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704726610},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}