{"id":73086,"date":"2023-11-02T22:02:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=73086"},"modified":"2023-11-02T22:02:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:02:14","slug":"commentary-plastic-waste-in-singapore-is-5-cents-a-bag-enough-to-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=73086","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Plastic waste in Singapore &#8211; is 5 cents a bag enough to make a difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been four months since major supermarkets started charging at least 5 cents for each disposable carrier bag. While commendable, it\u2019s not sufficient to make an impact on Singapore\u2019s growing waste problem, says Singapore Environment Council chairman Isabella Huang-Loh.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/plastic-bag-charge-5-cents-supermarkets-customers-usage-grocery-disposables-3891511\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been four months since major supermarkets started charging at least 5 cents for each disposable carrier bag. While commendable, it\u2019s not sufficient to make an impact on Singapore\u2019s growing waste problem, says Singapore Environment Council chairman Isabella Huang-Loh.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":73087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-73086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}