{"id":39693,"date":"2019-06-11T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39693"},"modified":"2019-06-11T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:23:04","slug":"canada-to-ban-harmful-single-use-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39693","title":{"rendered":"Canada to ban &#8216;harmful&#8217; single-use plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Canada will ban many single-use plastic items by 2021, including bags, straws, cutlery and stirring sticks, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/01\/europe\/sperm-whale-plastic-stomach-italy-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">cut harmful waste<\/a> damaging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/16\/health\/ocean-plastic-study-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the country&#8217;s ecosystems.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the measures Monday, describing &#8220;a problem we simply can&#8217;t ignore.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Plastic waste ends up in our landfills and incinerators, litters our parks and beaches, and pollutes our rivers, lakes, and oceans, entangling and killing turtles, fish, and marine mammals,&#8221; the Canadian leader said in a statement.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Canada will ban many single-use plastic items by 2021, including bags, straws, cutlery and stirring sticks, to cut harmful waste damaging the country&#8217;s ecosystems.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the measures Monday, describing &#8220;a problem we simply can&#8217;t ignore.&#8221;&#8221;Plastic waste ends up in our landfills and incinerators, litters our parks and beaches, and pollutes our rivers,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39693","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\/39693","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=39693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}