{"id":1110509,"date":"2023-06-29T06:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T06:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/?p=367670"},"modified":"2023-06-29T06:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T06:01:43","slug":"nz-first-to-ban-thin-plastic-bags-from-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/29\/nz-first-to-ban-thin-plastic-bags-from-supermarkets\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ \u2018first\u2019 to ban thin plastic bags from supermarkets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/534bb044-8a76-4c8c-bfb3-d1cea3f7f1ed.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/534bb044-8a76-4c8c-bfb3-d1cea3f7f1ed.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/534bb044-8a76-4c8c-bfb3-d1cea3f7f1ed-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/534bb044-8a76-4c8c-bfb3-d1cea3f7f1ed-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1280px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>\n<p>New Zealand will become the first country to ban the thin plastic bags that supermarket customers use to collect their fruit and vegetables. The ban comes into effect on Saturday and will extend to straws and silverware as the government expands a campaign against single-use plastics it started in 2019 when it banned the thicker [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand will become the first country to ban the thin plastic bags that supermarket customers use to collect their fruit and vegetables. The ban comes into effect on Saturday and will extend to straws and silverware as the government expands a camp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111633,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110509\/revisions\/1111633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}