{"id":34223,"date":"2019-03-05T19:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34223"},"modified":"2019-03-05T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:22:32","slug":"world-entangled-in-plastic-waste-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34223","title":{"rendered":"World entangled in plastic waste catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"80\">\n<p>Bags, bottles, straws and plates &#8211; about half of the plastic used every day is used only once and then thrown away.<\/p>\n<p>This disposal after a single use is causing widespread damage to oceans, habitats and food chains, and environmental organisations have said that needs to stop.<\/p>\n<p>A new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature documents a dramatic rise in the production of single-use plastics: Since the year 2000, we have used more plastics than in all the years that came before.<\/p>\n<p>The world now produces nearly 300 million tonnes of plastic every year, and most of it is not being recycled.<\/p>\n<p>To tackle the problem, the group has called for an international agreement banning single-use plastics and said companies responsible for producing the waste should be responsible for cleaning it up.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Sara Khairat has more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bags, bottles, straws and plates &#8211; about half of the plastic used every day is used only once and then thrown away. This disposal after a single use is causing widespread damage to oceans, habitats and food chains, and environmental organisations have said that needs to stop. A new report from the World Wide Fund&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}