{"id":13054,"date":"2020-01-19T20:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T11:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/19\/china-moves-to-phase-out-single-use-plastics"},"modified":"2020-01-19T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T11:43:05","slug":"china-moves-to-phase-out-single-use-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13054","title":{"rendered":"China moves to phase out single-use plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic bags to be banned in all major cities by end of 2020, says state planner<\/p>\n<p>China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country\u2019s biggest environmental problems.<\/p>\n<p>Vast amounts of untreated plastic waste are buried in landfills or dumped in rivers. The United Nations has identified single-use plastics as one of the world\u2019s biggest environmental challenges.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/19\/china-moves-to-phase-out-single-use-plastics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic bags to be banned in all major cities by end of 2020, says state plannerChina is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,65,266,466,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-plastics","category-pollution","category-waste","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13055,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}