{"id":581888,"date":"2019-02-20T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=20ebc6433217ef83e9792b3ee3640bf2"},"modified":"2019-02-20T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:24:31","slug":"banning-plastic-bags-town-by-town-a-guide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=581888","title":{"rendered":"Banning plastic bags, town by town: A guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since plastic carryout bags were introduced in the 1960s, people have used trillions of them, and, for the most part, thrown them away. And whether they&#8217;re sitting in a landfill, hung up in a tree limb or floating around the ocean, the bags don&#8217;t biodegrade, and they&#8217;re not going away anytime soon. They&#8217;re free to consumers, convenient and cheap for stores to use. But they have joined billions of tons of tossed-away plastic packaging materials and products to cause a variety of environmental problems. And in a growing number of communities, citizens have decided that they&#8217;ve got to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since plastic carryout bags were introduced in the 1960s, people have used trillions of them, and, for the most part, thrown them away. And whether they&#8217;re sitting in a landfill, hung up in a tree limb or floating around the ocean, the bags don&#8217;t biode&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581889,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581888\/revisions\/581889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}