{"id":5990,"date":"2019-10-17T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T07:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","slug":"how-plastic-bags-were-supposed-to-help-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/17\/how-plastic-bags-were-supposed-to-help-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"How Plastic Bags Were Supposed To Help The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Laura Foster<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plastic carrier bag\nhas become something of a symbol for the problems caused by plastic pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But according to the family of the man who\ncreated it, Sten Gustaf Thulin, his design was supposed to help the planet and\nhe&#8217;d be shocked and upset to see what it&#8217;s become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Thulin family make no money from the sale\nof the bags\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/video_and_audio\/headlines\/50043369\/plastic-pollution-how-plastic-bags-were-supposed-to-help-the-planet\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laura Foster The plastic carrier bag has become something of a symbol for the problems caused by plastic pollution. But according to the family of the man who created&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5991,"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-5990","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\/5990","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=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}