{"id":1781,"date":"2024-08-18T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2024-08-12T18:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T22:14:47","slug":"its-time-to-ban-plastic-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/its-time-to-ban-plastic-production\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time to Ban Plastic Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling plastic is not working.\u00a0 It helps a little, but not nearly enough.\u00a0 Plastic permeates the oceans, the clouds, our food, or water, our bodies \u2013 everything.\u00a0 So a strong new movement is developing that seeks either to ban plastic production outright or regulate it out of existence.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe Movement to Ban Plastic Production<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/environment\/2024\/07\/22\/texas-plastic-production-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/environment\/2024\/07\/22\/texas-plastic-production-pollution<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781642832358\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling plastic is not working.\u00a0 It helps a little, but not nearly enough.\u00a0 Plastic permeates the oceans, the clouds, our food, or water, our bodies \u2013 everything.\u00a0 So a strong new movement is developing that seeks either to ban plastic production outright or regulate it out of existence. The Movement to Ban Plastic Production https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/environment\/2024\/07\/22\/texas-plastic-production-pollution&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/its-time-to-ban-plastic-production\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;It&#8217;s Time to Ban Plastic Production&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,25,53,55,41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act-now","category-environment","category-global","category-health","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}