{"id":92403,"date":"2019-05-11T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T23:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/11\/nearly-all-countries-agree-to-stem-flow-of-plastic-waste-into-poor-nations\/"},"modified":"2019-05-11T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T23:02:41","slug":"nearly-all-countries-agree-to-stem-flow-of-plastic-waste-into-poor-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=92403","title":{"rendered":"Nearly all countries agree to stem flow of plastic waste into poor nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US reportedly opposed deal, which follows concerns that villages in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia had \u2018turned into dumpsites\u2019Almost all the world\u2019s countries have agreed on a deal aimed at restricting shipments of hard-to-recycle plastic waste to poorer countries, the United Nations announced on Friday.Exporting countries \u2013 including the US \u2013 now will have to obtain consent from countries receiving contaminated, mixed or unrecyclable plastic waste. Currently, the US and other countries can send lower-quality plastic waste to private entities in developing countries without getting approval from their governments. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/may\/10\/nearly-all-the-worlds-countries-sign-plastic-waste-deal-except-us\" target=\"_blank\">Nearly all countries agree to stem flow of plastic waste into poor nations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US reportedly opposed deal, which follows concerns that villages in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia had \u2018turned into dumpsites\u2019Almost all the world\u2019s countries have agreed on a deal aimed at restricting shipments of hard-to-recycle plastic waste to poorer countries, the United Nations announced on Friday.Exporting countries \u2013 including the US \u2013 [&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-92403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92403","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=92403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}