{"id":2855,"date":"2014-07-03T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/save-our-green.com\/allpost\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2015-06-10T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:39:24","slug":"international-plastic-bag-free-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/international-plastic-bag-free-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Plastic Bag Free Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 03:\u00a0International Plastic Bag Free Day<\/p>\n

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International Plastic Bag Free Day<\/p><\/div>\n

On this day, around the globe, retailers are encouraged not to supply plastic shopping bags and consumers are encouraged not to use plastic shopping bags. Reusable bags are rather promoted.<\/p>\n

Every day of the year seems to highlight some or other special cause and even the nasty plastic shopping bag made the annual calendar! Designed to last plastic bags can spend up to one thousand years in landfill. Studies show that the average bag has a 20 minutes functioning lifespan \u2013 from store to disposal, or being stashed in a cupboard awaiting a trip to the dump at a later stage.
\nHold on! You may proudly say, but I use those bags in my small kitchen bin and to scoop my puppy\u2019s daily doo-doo. Let\u2019s have a look at alternative ways of approaching both these.
\nFirstly, by recycling everything (paper, glass, plastic, tin, food scraps) every family can greatly reduce their impact to landfill and thus to nature.<\/p>\n

Let’s say “ZERO PLASTIC”, AND “SAVE OUR MOTHER NATURE”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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