{"id":171853,"date":"2018-07-18T05:50:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T09:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=171853"},"modified":"2018-07-18T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T09:50:12","slug":"marriott-hotels-eliminating-plastic-straws-by-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/18\/marriott-hotels-eliminating-plastic-straws-by-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott hotels eliminating plastic straws by 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_169301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169301\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/straws-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169301\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/straws-1.jpg\" alt=\"The world's largest hotel company says the move will eliminate approximately 1 billion straws and 250 million stirrers by July 2019.(Pixabay)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/straws-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/straws-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/straws-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The world&#8217;s largest hotel company says the move will eliminate approximately 1 billion straws and 250 million stirrers by July 2019.(Pixabay)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DETROIT &#8211; Marriott International says it&#8217;s removing plastic straws and drink stirrers from all of its 6,500 hotels and resorts worldwide by next year.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest hotel company says the move will eliminate approximately 1 billion straws and 250 million stirrers by July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Marriott says the year-long timeframe will let hotels deplete their existing supplies and identify alternatives to plastic straws. Customers will be given alternatives upon request.<\/p>\n<p>Marriott is the latest big company to announce it&#8217;s ditching plastic straws. Starbucks and American Airlines announced plans to eliminate plastic straws last week.<\/p>\n<p>Hilton Hotels and Hyatt Hotels Corp. have also said they plan to eliminate plastic straws at their properties by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT &#8211; Marriott International says it&#8217;s removing plastic straws and drink stirrers from all of its 6,500 hotels and resorts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":162211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[53592],"class_list":["post-171853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-marriott-international","mauthors-dee-ann-durbin","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171853","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=171853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}