{"id":41145,"date":"2019-10-11T00:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T00:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41145"},"modified":"2019-10-11T00:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T00:22:49","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-brands-have-a-garbage-problem-this-man-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41145","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s biggest brands have a garbage problem. This man can help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The world&#8217;s largest consumer goods companies have a big problem: The plastic waste that piles up in landfills and oceans has their corporate logos all over it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">To try to fix it, they&#8217;re increasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/14\/business\/coca-cola-recycling-grant\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">recycling efforts<\/a>, sponsoring beach cleanups and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/07\/business\/unilever-plastic\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">switching up<\/a> packaging materials, among other things. The most radical effort, though, is also the hardest to pull off: Get consumers to switch from single-use to reusable packages.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It may seem impossible, but Procter &#038; Gamble, Unilever, Nestl\u00e9, Clorox and PepsiCo are all trying it out, thanks to Tom Szaky.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest consumer goods companies have a big problem: The plastic waste that piles up in landfills and oceans has their corporate logos all over it. To try to fix it, they&#8217;re increasing recycling efforts, sponsoring beach cleanups and switching up packaging materials, among other things. The most radical effort, though, is also the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41145","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\/41145","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=41145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}