{"id":33511,"date":"2021-06-28T11:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/28\/new-zealand-to-ban-most-single-use-plastics-by-2025"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:16:48","slug":"new-zealand-to-ban-most-single-use-plastics-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33511","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to ban most single-use plastics by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on plastics including cotton buds, packaging, cutlery, straws and fruit labels to be phased in from next year<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders will be farewelling their plastics \u2013 bags, ear buds, spoons and straws \u2013 as the government attempts to match the country\u2019s reality to its \u201cclean green\u201d reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Currently one of the top 10 per-capita producers of landfill waste in the world, New Zealand has announced it will ban a swathe of single-use plastics, including cotton buds, bags, cutlery, plates and bowls, straws and fruit labels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/28\/new-zealand-to-ban-most-single-use-plastics-by-2025\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on plastics including cotton buds, packaging, cutlery, straws and fruit labels to be phased in from next yearNew Zealanders will be farewelling their plastics \u2013 bags, ear buds, spoons and straws \u2013 as the government attempts to match the country\u2019s r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"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":[41,65,56,266,466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-plastics","category-pollution"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511","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\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33512,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511\/revisions\/33512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}