{"id":14050,"date":"2024-06-26T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14050"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:39:28","slug":"california-is-doubling-down-on-banning-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14050","title":{"rendered":"California Is Doubling Down on Banning Plastic Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;Manufacturing a paper bag takes about four times as much energy as it takes to produce a plastic bag, plus the chemicals and fertilizers\u2026create additional harm to the environment,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.org\/resource\/sustainable-shoppingwhich-bag-best\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains<\/a><em>National Geographic<\/em>. &#8220;(F)or a paper bag to neutralize its environmental impact compared to plastic, it would have to be used anywhere from three to 43 times.&#8221; Given that paper bags aren&#8217;t very durable, &#8220;it is unlikely that a person would get enough use out of any one bag to even out the environmental impact.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"e6iYpBCgNE\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/06\/07\/california-is-doubling-down-on-banning-plastic-bags\/\">California Is Doubling Down on Banning Plastic Bags<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;California Is Doubling Down on Banning Plastic Bags&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/06\/07\/california-is-doubling-down-on-banning-plastic-bags\/embed\/#?secret=8l02fcPc0J#?secret=e6iYpBCgNE\" data-secret=\"e6iYpBCgNE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;Manufacturing a paper bag takes about four times as much energy as it takes to produce a plastic bag, plus the chemicals and fertilizers\u2026create additional harm to the environment,&#8221; explains National Geographic. &#8220;(F)or a paper bag to neutralize its environmental impact compared to plastic, it would have to be used anywhere from three to 43 times.&#8221; Given that paper bags aren&#8217;t very durable, &#8220;it is unlikely that a person would get enough use out of any one bag to even out the environmental impact.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/06\/07\/california-is-doubling-down-on-banning-plastic-bags\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[321,800,304,103,799,236],"class_list":["post-14050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ban","tag-bans","tag-california","tag-environment","tag-plastic-bags","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14051,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}