{"id":25338,"date":"2020-12-03T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/03\/all-change-indias-railways-bring-back-tea-in-clay-cups-in-bid-to-banish-plastics"},"modified":"2020-12-03T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:15:50","slug":"all-change-indias-railways-bring-back-tea-in-clay-cups-in-bid-to-banish-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25338","title":{"rendered":"All change: India&#8217;s railways bring back tea in clay cups in bid to banish plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stations switch to humble earthen kulhads in move to cut down on toxic waste and boost incomes of village potters<\/p>\n<p>A small and humble relic from India\u2019s past is about to stage a major comeback. At all 7,000 railway stations in the country, tea will be served in earthen cups known as <em>kulhads<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The kulhads, redolent of a bygone pastoral era, are unpainted, unglazed and have no handles, but are perfectly biodegradable and environment-friendly, which is why the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/11\/indian-minister-posts-double-speed-footage-of-new-fast-train\">railways minister, Piyush Goyal<\/a>, has said they will replace plastic cups as part of the government\u2019s goal of making India free of single-use plastic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/03\/all-change-indias-railways-bring-back-tea-in-clay-cups-in-bid-to-banish-plastics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stations switch to humble earthen kulhads in move to cut down on toxic waste and boost incomes of village pottersA small and humble relic from India\u2019s past is about to stage a major comeback. At all 7,000 railway stations in the country, tea will be se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"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":[1757,65,59,62,78,766,61,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diwali","category-environment","category-global-development","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-rail-transport","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/25338","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\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25339,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25338\/revisions\/25339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}