{"id":57585,"date":"2018-12-10T16:53:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57585"},"modified":"2018-12-10T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:53:04","slug":"80-reduction-in-plastic-bag-use-in-australia-over-last-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/12\/10\/80-reduction-in-plastic-bag-use-in-australia-over-last-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"80% reduction in plastic bag use in Australia over last three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In good news for our oceans, last three months saw a drastic 80% reduction in plastic bag use in Australia. Three months ago, two of Australia&#8217;s largest supermarket chains &#8211; Woolworths and Coles &#8211; banned single-use grocery bags.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, some customers felt &#8220;bag rage&#8221; about having to fork over 15 Australian cents (11 cents) to buy a reusable one. Woolworths execs blamed slumping sales on &#8220;customers adjusting&#8221;\u00a0to the plastic bag ban. Coles even briefly backed down on the bag ban and received a lot of flak\u00a0rom environmentally conscious shoppers for giving away reusable plastic bags.<\/p>\n<p>But the good news is that it seems most Aussies haven&#8217;t found it too hard to adjust to the change\u2014and that&#8217;s fantastic for our landfills, oceans\u00a0and the greater environment, which have become dumping grounds for our plastic waste.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/australia-plastic-bag-ban-2622280343.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/australia-plastic-bag-ban-2622280343.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In good news for our oceans, last three months saw a drastic 80% reduction in plastic bag use in Australia. Three months ago, two of Australia&#8217;s largest supermarket chains &#8211; Woolworths and Coles &#8211; banned single-use grocery bags. Initially, some customers felt &#8220;bag rage&#8221; about having to fork over 15 Australian cents (11 cents) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57585","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\/57585","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=57585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}