{"id":728,"date":"2007-11-24T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T10:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=728"},"modified":"2007-11-24T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T10:40:35","slug":"who-says-an-individual-cant-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Who says an individual can&#8217;t make a difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a leafy part of north-west London where there are lots of trees. As I turn from my street into the main road, there&#8217;s a tree that has a black plastic bag fluttering from one of the branches. It&#8217;s been there years and years and years. It&#8217;s a constant reminder to me of how plastic bags are messing up our environment and how incredibly slow  these things are to decompose.<br \/>\nIn my book, therefore, Rebecca Hosking is a heroine. She managed to persuade all 43 shopkeepers in her home town of Modbury to replace the use of plastic bags with reusable cloth bags. Nearly 80 other towns are now in various stages of introducing their own bans. Last week, the 32 London boroughs said that they would seek a new law to enable them to do the same. This week, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that he would seek a meeting with supermarkets to see how plastic bags could be eliminated.<br \/>\nYou can read a profile of Rebecca Hosking here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2007\/nov\/23\/plasticbags.recycling\">here<\/a> and learn how to make your own cloth bag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2007\/07\/have_bags_of_fun_saving_the_pl.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a leafy part of north-west London where there are lots of trees. As I turn from my street into the main road, there&#8217;s a tree that has a black plastic bag fluttering from one of the branches. It&#8217;s been there years and years and years. It&#8217;s a constant reminder to me of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","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\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}