{"id":9673,"date":"2017-10-06T15:53:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/06\/eu-rules-out-tax-on-plastic-products-to-reduce-waste\/"},"modified":"2017-10-06T15:53:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:53:51","slug":"eu-rules-out-tax-on-plastic-products-to-reduce-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=9673","title":{"rendered":"EU rules out tax on plastic products to reduce waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU opts for public awareness campaign on the impacts of plastics on the environment saying a tax would not be sustainableThe EU has ruled out penalties on single-use plastic products, in favour of raising public awareness of the damage consumer plastics are doing to the world\u2019s oceans.Frans Timmermans, vice president of the European commission, said a tax would \u201cnot be sustainable\u201d, but that changing the way plastic was produced and used could work. \u201cThe only sustainable method is to create recyclable plastic and take out microplastics. You can\u2019t take out microplastics with a tax. You need to make sure things are reused, and not put in the ocean.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/oct\/06\/eu-rules-out-tax-on-plastic-products-to-reduce-waste\" target=\"_blank\">EU rules out tax on plastic products to reduce waste<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU opts for public awareness campaign on the impacts of plastics on the environment saying a tax would not be sustainableThe EU has ruled out penalties on single-use plastic products, in favour of raising public awareness of the damage consumer plastics are doing to the world\u2019s oceans.Frans Timmermans, vice president [&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-9673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673","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=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}