{"id":2930,"date":"2008-07-24T09:50:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2008-07-24T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:50:43","slug":"freeing-los-angeles-of-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/07\/24\/freeing-los-angeles-of-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeing Los Angeles of Plastic Bags?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-072408\/2008_07_24_james.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-072408\/2008_07_24_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/sydfish.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/turtle.jpg\" alt=\"ban the plastic bag\" \/>The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to ban the use of all plastic bags in the city by retail and grocery stores by 2010. According to the unanimous decision the ban will go into effect if the state fails to impose a minimum 25 cent per use fee for consumers requesting plastic bags. More immediately, the city council also approved a ban on food service products using polystyrene, more commonly known as Styrofoam, for packaging from city events and facilities starting next year. The recent steps taken by the council were hailed by environmental groups as crucial to the future of the city\u2019s environment and economy. As the second largest city in the United States, LA&#8217;s population uses an estimated 2.3 billion non-biodegradable plastic bags per year. With the impending ban in place, city officials are hoping to reduce the figure by 30 percent before 2010. Anticipating these types of  regulation, a coalition called Save the Plastic Bag criticized the move as based on misinformation about their product.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Kirsten James, Water Quality Director, Heal the Bay.<\/em> For more information about the state-wide effort to ban plastic bags, AB 2058, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthebay.org\">www.healthebay.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to ban the use of all plastic bags in the city by retail and grocery stores by 2010. According to the unanimous decision the ban will go into effect if the state fails to impose a minimum 25 cent per use fee for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}