{"id":21009,"date":"2017-02-15T20:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21009"},"modified":"2017-02-15T20:53:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:53:52","slug":"bring-back-bottle-deposits-to-stop-plastic-pollution-in-our-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21009","title":{"rendered":"Bring back bottle deposits to stop plastic pollution in our oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, we use a staggering 38.5 million single-use plastic bottles and a further 58 million cans every day. Only half of these are recycled, so it\u2019s no surprise that many of these end up on our beaches and in our oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Plastic bottles take 450 years to break down, killing marine life, harming the coastal ecosystem, and ruining our beaches.\u00a0Placing a small deposit on plastic bottles and cans would dramatically increase recycling and reduce marine plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Right now, the Government is finalising a plan to tackle Britain\u2019s litter problem. But they\u2019re wavering about a bottle deposit scheme, where 10p is added to the price of a drink and if you return the bottle you get the money back. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">If you want to sign a petition supporting a deposit scheme &#8211; as I have done &#8211; you can access the 38 Degrees site <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"https:\/\/you.38degrees.org.uk\/petitions\/bring-back-bottle-deposits-to-stop-plastic-pollution-in-our-oceans-1?bucket=email-blast-15_2_2017_kick\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, we use a staggering 38.5 million single-use plastic bottles and a further 58 million cans every day. Only half of these are recycled, so it\u2019s no surprise that many of these end up on our beaches and in our oceans. Plastic bottles take 450 years to break down, killing marine life, harming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21009"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21015,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009\/revisions\/21015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}