{"id":2214,"date":"2005-04-02T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2005-04-02T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T10:18:00","slug":"beach-bum-urges-stop-on-plastic-bag-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2214","title":{"rendered":"Beach Bum urges stop on plastic bag use"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are many, many things that need doing and Beach Bum <\/span> suggests one that can have a pretty large impact.<\/p>\n

The world throws away more than a million plastic bags a minute. These things don’t biodegrade and continue to choke landfill and get ingested by innocent animals and sea creatures who die painful deaths as a result. They also continue to leech toxins into everything we eat and drink and touch.<\/p>\n

No great invention here but we make and sell attractive and economical reusable fabric bags. Each bag we sell saves the world from close to 500 plastic bags. A small step, but one we can take every day.<\/p>\n

Check out his weblog, which is at http:\/\/www.badlani.com\/blog\/<\/a>. He calls it Saving our planet, one bag at a time. They discuss the successes some communities have had and all the marketing benefits corportations can get from getting on to a “good” bandwagon. These make good business sense now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many, many things that need doing and Beach Bum suggests one that can have a pretty large impact. The world throws away more than a million plastic bags a minute. These things don’t biodegrade and continue to choke landfill and get ingested by innocent animals and sea creatures who die painful deaths as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-envisioning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}