{"id":15802,"date":"2012-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120701-02n"},"modified":"2012-07-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:00:00","slug":"epi-applauds-uk-study-that-finds-plastic-bags-unfairly-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/epi-applauds-uk-study-that-finds-plastic-bags-unfairly-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"EPI applauds UK study that finds plastic bags unfairly targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>EPI Environmental Products Inc., developers of of technology that accelerates the plastic biodegrading process, today applauded the latest study by the United Kingdom\u2019s Environmental Agency (EA) that finds plastic bags are negatively targeted as being environmentally unfriendly.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Entitled the &#8220;Life Cycle Assessment of Supermarket Carrier Bags,\u201d the report concludes that the lightweight, commonly used plastic carrier bags are not the environmental villain that they are often made out to be. <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polymer-age.co.uk\/x\/guideArchiveArticle.html?id=34794\" >www.polymer-age.co.uk\/x\/guideArchiveArticle.html?id=34794<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Contact<\/b><br \/>Weronika Stepien<br \/>Phone: (+1)-604 738 6281<br \/>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:weronikastepien@epi-global.com\">weronikastepien@epi-global.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Tags: TDPA (Totally Degradable Plastic Additive), environmental impact, degradation, municipal bans<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>EPI Environmental Products Inc., developers of of technology that accelerates the plastic biodegrading process, today applauded the latest study by the United Kingdom&rsquo;s Environmental Agency<\/b><\/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":[1174,3636],"class_list":["post-15802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-environment-agency","supplier-epi-environmental-products-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802","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=15802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15802"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}