{"id":23533,"date":"2020-10-07T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/07\/japan-wins-wars-on-plastic-bags-but-shoplifters-bag-hidden-spoils"},"modified":"2020-10-07T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T04:09:00","slug":"japan-wins-war-on-plastic-but-shoplifters-bag-hidden-spoils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23533","title":{"rendered":"Japan wins war on plastic, but shoplifters bag hidden spoils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charging for plastic bags has led to some customers concealing goods in their reusable bags, supermarket chains say<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s consumers have embraced a campaign to address their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/27\/japans-plastic-problem-tokyo-spearheads-push-at-g20-to-tackle-waste\">addiction to plastic bags<\/a>, but new measures to combat marine pollution have created an unforeseen problem: a rise in shoplifting.<\/p>\n<p>All of Japan\u2019s stores were required to introduce a fee for plastic shopping bags in July with the aim of encouraging shoppers to use their own, reusable bags rather than pay for carrier bags.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/07\/japan-wins-wars-on-plastic-bags-but-shoplifters-bag-hidden-spoils\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charging for plastic bags has led to some customers concealing goods in their reusable bags, supermarket chains sayJapan\u2019s consumers have embraced a campaign to address their addiction to plastic bags, but new measures to combat marine pollution have c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[65,88,541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-japan","category-plastic-bags"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23534,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533\/revisions\/23534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}