{"id":57405,"date":"2018-10-03T05:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57405"},"modified":"2018-10-03T05:33:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T05:33:35","slug":"ikea-bans-plastic-straws-from-uk-and-irish-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/10\/03\/ikea-bans-plastic-straws-from-uk-and-irish-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikea bans plastic straws from UK and Irish stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to raise awareness on the issue and tackle the ever increasing of plastic waste, Swedish furniture chain\u00a0Ikea ditched\u00a0single-use plastic straws from all\u00a0of its UK and Ireland stores, restaurants and bistros this week.<\/p>\n<p>Ikea\u00a0unveiled its last single-use plastic straw in a display at London\u2019s Design Museum yesterday to symbolize the end of an era of single-use plastics.\u00a0The so-called Last Straw installation will be on show to the public until Saturday and aims to inspire consumers to collectively take small steps that will have a positive environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlastic straws have become such an important emblem for change when it comes to single-use plastic, but this campaign is not just about straws,\u201d said Ikea spokeswoman Hege S\u00e6bj\u00f8rnsen. \u201cWe want to harness people\u2019s energy behind ditching single-use plastic straws and disposables to draw attention to the thousands of everyday changes we can all make to have a big impact on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/oct\/02\/ikea-says-goodbye-to-plastic-straws-with-display-at-londons-design-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/oct\/02\/ikea-says-goodbye-to-plastic-straws-with-display-at-londons-design-museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to raise awareness on the issue and tackle the ever increasing of plastic waste, Swedish furniture chain\u00a0Ikea ditched\u00a0single-use plastic straws from all\u00a0of its UK and Ireland stores, restaurants and bistros this week. Ikea\u00a0unveiled its last single-use plastic straw in a display at London\u2019s Design Museum yesterday to symbolize the end of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}