{"id":16319,"date":"2019-04-02T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T02:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2019-04-08T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:20:56","slug":"ban-on-some-single-use-plastics-in-the-european-union-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/ban-on-some-single-use-plastics-in-the-european-union-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on some single-use plastics in the European Union in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Some single use plastics will be definitively banned in the European Union starting in 2021. Here is the list of prohibited products:<\/p>\n

\u2022 cotton swab sticks
\n\u2022 straws
\n\u2022 coffee taps and cocktail mixers
\n\u2022 disposable cutlery
\n\u2022 plates
\n\u2022 balloon stems<\/p>\n

All of these items will have to be produced from sustainable materials.<\/p>\n

However, this list does not include water bottles or plastic glasses for example. For these products, other measures are planned which are expected to be restrictive measures and not prohibitions. There is still a long way to go!<\/p>\n

Each year, plastic kills and injures sea turtles in our oceans. We need to act now to limit our plastic consumption!<\/span><\/h4>\n
\"\"

Stomach content from sea turtles cared for at the Sea turtle care center<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Sea turtle swimming next to a plastic bag<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Sectioned fin by a plastic fishing net<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some single use plastics will be definitively banned in the European Union starting in 2021. Here is the list of prohibited products: \u2022 cotton swab sticks \u2022 straws \u2022 coffee taps and cocktail mixers \u2022 disposable cutlery \u2022 plates \u2022 balloon stems All of these items will have to be produced from sustainable materials. However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[481,13,474],"class_list":{"0":"post-16319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-pollution","9":"tag-sea-turtles","10":"tag-te-mana-o-te-moana","11":"entry","12":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16337,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions\/16337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}