{"id":3110,"date":"2019-06-17T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T08:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"house-passes-bill-to-ban-single-use-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/17\/house-passes-bill-to-ban-single-use-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Bill To Ban Single-Use Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/node\/875688\"><strong><em>Hudson Kuteesa &amp; Viviane Irabizi<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parliament has passed a draft\nlaw prohibiting the manufacture, importation, use and sale of single-use\nplastic items in Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Single-use plastics are\nplastics that are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled, which\npollutes the environment at a very fast rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among others, they include\nplastic bags, cups, straws, coffee stirrers, soda and water bottles, and most\nfood packaging materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A plenary session attended by\n56 Members of Parliament yesterday passed the bill that has five chapters and\n20 articles explaining key issues about the proposed ban, as well as how it\nwill be implemented\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/house-passes-bill-ban-single-use-plastics\">read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hudson Kuteesa &amp; Viviane Irabizi Parliament has passed a draft law prohibiting the manufacture, importation, use and sale of single-use plastic items in Rwanda. Single-use plastics are plastics that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}