{"id":1518645,"date":"2024-02-25T15:09:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T15:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=d6d794ea3f571fdafc73489a7bfa5569"},"modified":"2024-02-25T15:09:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T15:09:53","slug":"pollution-crisis-in-mexico-shows-limits-of-plastic-bag-bans-in-global-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/25\/pollution-crisis-in-mexico-shows-limits-of-plastic-bag-bans-in-global-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollution Crisis in Mexico Shows Limits of Plastic Bag Bans in Global Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The corner shop near where I live in Puebla, Mexico, keeps its plastic bags hidden under the counter. Cashiers only bring them out when someone asks, as though they were contraband. And in a way, they are, as plastic bags have been banned for a few years now. Bans on single-use plastic bags came into effect in 29 of Mexico&rsquo;s 32 states between 2018 and 2021. But in Puebla, where plastic bags have...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/pollution-crisis-in-mexico-shows-limits-of-plastic-bag-bans-in-global-capitalism\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/pollution-crisis-in-mexico-shows-limits-of-plastic-bag-bans-in-global-capitalism\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican states like Puebla have banned plastic bags, but waste is overflowing due to exempt transnational companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5605,3522,7890,1018,4,6322],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518645"}],"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\/2245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518646,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518645\/revisions\/1518646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}