{"id":54475,"date":"2018-08-18T01:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/18\/uk-public-backs-tough-action-on-plastic-waste-in-record-numbers\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T01:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T23:01:34","slug":"uk-public-backs-tough-action-on-plastic-waste-in-record-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=54475","title":{"rendered":"UK public backs tough action on plastic waste in record numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Size of consultation response could lead to \u2018latte levy\u2019 and other fiscal measures in budgetAn unprecedented number of people have backed tough action against plastic waste in a government consultation that could pave the way for a series of fiscal measures in the autumn budget.The government will say response is evidence that there is broad public support for reducing single-use plastic waste through measure such as a \u201clatte levy\u201d on coffee cups, similar to the plastic bag charge, and tax incentives for recycling. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/aug\/18\/uk-public-backs-tough-action-on-plastic-waste-record-numbers-consultation-latte-levy-tax\" target=\"_blank\">UK public backs tough action on plastic waste in record numbers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Size of consultation response could lead to \u2018latte levy\u2019 and other fiscal measures in budgetAn unprecedented number of people have backed tough action against plastic waste in a government consultation that could pave the way for a series of fiscal measures in the autumn budget.The government will say response is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}