{"id":15303,"date":"2011-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20110830-03n"},"modified":"2011-08-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:00:00","slug":"styrofoam-ban-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/styrofoam-ban-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Styrofoam-ban in California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Certain to-go containers could get the heave-ho if a California bill is passed into law.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A bill has been introduced in California that would ban restaurants, grocery stores and other vendors from packaging food in non-biodegradable Styrofoam containers beginning in 2016. The bill was introduced by Democratic state Senator Alan Lowenthal in an effort to reduce litter from take-out food. Though many California cities have similar bans on the non-biodegradable containers, if passed into law this bill would be the first state-wide measure against Styrofoam in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>&#8230; More at<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2011\/08\/30\/california-lawmakers-might-ban-styrofoam-containers\/\" >newsfeed.time.com\/2011\/08\/30\/california-lawmakers-might-ban-styrofoam-containers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keywords: littering, jobs<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Certain to-go containers could get the heave-ho if a California bill is passed into law.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A bill has been introduced in California that would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-15303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15303"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}