{"id":255,"date":"2008-06-12T00:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T16:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/06\/12\/china-bans-plastic-bags\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T21:45:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T13:45:18","slug":"china-bans-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/06\/china-bans-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"China Bans Plastic Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/i.l.cnn.net\/cnn\/2008\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/01\/09\/china.plastic.bags\/art.china.bags.afp.gi.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right\"><\/p>\n<p>China just banned flimsy (0.025mm or less) plastic bags.  Stores cannot provide them free of charge anymore.  In days, usage shrank by 80%.  Triumph for environmentalists.  It seems.<\/p>\n<p>People hate paying for something that was free.  Ignorant or defiant customers quarrel at the check-out.  I had several surprises: a piece of dripping red meat hung on a twine from the butcher; a handful of cherry tomatoes poured into my canvas bag. <\/p>\n<p>Market will react: a supermarket switched to paper bags.  Customers will get used to paying for them.  Stores will find plastic bags sales a mandated profit. Would Earth win?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China just banned flimsy (0.025mm or less) plastic bags. Stores cannot provide them free of charge anymore. In days, usage shrank by 80%. Triumph for environmentalists. It seems. People hate paying for something that was free. Ignorant or defiant customers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/06\/china-bans-plastic-bags\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}