{"id":332,"date":"2007-12-18T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=332"},"modified":"2007-12-18T16:56:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T16:56:06","slug":"plasticbagleadershipnowheretobefound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/plasticbagleadershipnowheretobefound\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic bag leadership nowhere to be found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/Bags_on_a_fence.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I was in South Africa a few summers ago I was really happy to notice that the stores charged extra for plastic bags.  The result: everyone had re-usable cloth\/thick plastic bags to carry their shopping with them.  Since then I&#8217;ve learned that they were just one of the first to start the ball rolling on something most of the world has now taken on, the banning of the disposable bag.<br \/>\nEnvironmentalist uber-blog &#8220;Inhabitat&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\">http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com<\/a> has a &#8220;great article&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2007\/12\/17\/africas-outlook-and-ban-on-plastic-bags\/\">http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2007\/12\/17\/africas-outlook-and-ban-on-plastic-bags\/<\/a> about the move away from throw-away plastic in Africa and I&#8217;m just left wondering, outside of San Francisco where is this movement in the United States.  Like a lot of environmental movements, we in the States are in a great position to take the helm on this and yet we sit with our heads so firmly stuck in the sand I&#8217;m not even sure we can feel the winds of change blowing around us.<br \/>\nThe above picture is taken from an awesome contributor-based photography site called the &#8220;Plastic Bag Gallery&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photonet.org.uk\/plasticbag\/.\">http:\/\/www.photonet.org.uk\/plasticbag\/.<\/a>  Individual credit goes to Jessica Backhaus from the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of environmental movements, we in the States are in a great position to take the helm on this and yet we sit with our heads so firmly stuck in the sand I&#8217;m not even sure we can feel the winds of change blowing around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128,273],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-environment","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}