{"id":932977,"date":"2022-12-24T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=d5a82083a7c69226753a338f25b9887e"},"modified":"2022-12-24T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T16:52:26","slug":"lawsuits-against-plastic-industry-could-exceed-20-billion-in-damages-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/24\/lawsuits-against-plastic-industry-could-exceed-20-billion-in-damages-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuits Against Plastic Industry Could Exceed $20 Billion in Damages by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to new legal pathways, people around the world could sue plastics manufacturers for damages totalling more than $20 billion by 2030, with most lawsuits originating in the U.S., according to a new study. The report, published by the Australian Minderoo Foundation, estimates that the plastics industry is costing society around $100 billion annually in environmental clean-ups&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/lawsuits-against-plastic-industry-could-exceed-20-billion-in-damages-by-2030\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that the societal impact already costs around $100 billion per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14667,5605,55563,55566,4,14683,7099,686,1573,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932977"}],"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\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933036,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932977\/revisions\/933036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}