{"id":45882,"date":"2022-06-30T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jun\/30\/delhis-street-vendors-baulk-at-indias-single-use-plastic-ban"},"modified":"2022-06-30T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T23:10:10","slug":"delhis-street-vendors-baulk-at-indias-single-use-plastic-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45882","title":{"rendered":"Delhi\u2019s street vendors baulk at India\u2019s single-use plastic ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on 19 items comes in on Friday, but researchers warn that millions are not  prepared to use alternatives to ubiquitous plastic<\/p>\n<p>On Friday India\u2019s nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jun\/05\/india-will-abolish-all-single-use-plastic-by-2022-vows-narendra-modi\">ban on single-use plastic<\/a> comes into effect, but a glance at the street vendors who line one road in the Indian capital selling coconut water, flowers, samosas, mangoes and ice-cream \u2013 each in their own plastic bag \u2013 reveals that few are ready.<\/p>\n<p>Faimudin Ahmed, who sells mangoes piled high on a cart, says plastic bags cost him 40 rupees for 250 grams. The cost of paper bags is double that.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jun\/30\/delhis-street-vendors-baulk-at-indias-single-use-plastic-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on 19 items comes in on Friday, but researchers warn that millions are not  prepared to use alternatives to ubiquitous plasticOn Friday India\u2019s nationwide ban on single-use plastic comes into effect, but a glance at the street vendors who line one &#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":[353,65,59,62,266,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-environment","category-global-development","category-india","category-plastics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45882","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=45882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45883,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45882\/revisions\/45883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}