{"id":39322,"date":"2019-05-11T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39322"},"modified":"2019-05-11T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:22:10","slug":"over-180-countries-not-including-the-us-agree-to-restrict-global-plastic-waste-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39322","title":{"rendered":"Over 180 countries &#8212; not including the US &#8212; agree to restrict global plastic waste trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The governments of 187 countries have agreed to control the movement of plastic waste between national borders, in an effort to curb the world&#8217;s plastic crisis &#8212; but the United States was not among them. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Nations agreed to add plastic to the Basel Convention, a treaty that regulates movement of hazardous materials from one country to another, in order to combat the dangerous effects of plastic pollution around the world.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The pact was approved at the end of a two-week meeting of UN-backed conventions in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The governments of 187 countries have agreed to control the movement of plastic waste between national borders, in an effort to curb the world&#8217;s plastic crisis &#8212; but the United States was not among them. Nations agreed to add plastic to the Basel Convention, a treaty that regulates movement of hazardous materials from one country&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39322","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=39322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}