{"id":100056,"date":"2017-04-27T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100056"},"modified":"2017-04-27T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:43:11","slug":"morocco-seizes-420-tons-of-banned-plastic-bags-in-10-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/27\/morocco-seizes-420-tons-of-banned-plastic-bags-in-10-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco seizes 420 tons of banned plastic bags in 10 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100059\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/428681674_2fe503b679_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100059\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/428681674_2fe503b679_z.jpg\" alt=\"Since then &quot;more than 421 tons of plastic bags, 70 manufacturing machines, and 16 vehicles&quot; were seized, and 55 people were arrested, the ministry said in a statement. (Photo: velkr0\/ Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/428681674_2fe503b679_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/428681674_2fe503b679_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since then &#8220;more than 421 tons of plastic bags, 70 manufacturing machines, and 16 vehicles&#8221; were seized, and 55 people were arrested, the ministry said in a statement. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/velkr0\"> velkr0\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>RABAT\u2013Moroccan authorities have seized more than 420 tons of plastic bags since the entry into force of a law banning their use 10 months ago, the Moroccan Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On July 1 last year, Morocco started enforcing a ban on plastic bags nationwide after its parliament passed a landmark bill banning the production, import, sale and distribution of plastic bags across the North African kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Since then &#8220;more than 421 tons of plastic bags, 70 manufacturing machines, and 16 vehicles&#8221; were seized, and 55 people were arrested, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As for the first three months of 2017, the ministry said that some 36 tons of plastic bags and 51 machines were seized in operations aimed at dismantling their illegal production.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco encouraged the production of environmentally-friendly bags, and has set up a 21.8 million U.S. dollars fund to help companies affected by the law.<\/p>\n<p>This move is part of a larger environmentally conscious effort across the country to go green.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco ranks alongside Costa Rica, Bhutan and Ethiopia as one of the world&#8217;s greenest countries, a fact partially due to its ambitious goals to crackdown on carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RABAT\u2013Moroccan authorities have seized more than 420 tons of plastic bags since the entry into force of a law banning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5927,16,17],"tags":[18421,18422],"class_list":["post-100056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment-nature","category-news","category-news-w","tag-morroco","tag-plastic-bags","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}