{"id":824,"date":"2019-09-22T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/09\/22\/2019922hamden-looking-to-ban-plastic-bags\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:27:58","slug":"2019922hamden-looking-to-ban-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/09\/22\/2019922hamden-looking-to-ban-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamden Looking to Ban Plastic Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Dante Turo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">HAMDEN \u2013 Hamden is taking an initiative to get rid of plastic bags at checkouts in all stores. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Starting in 2021, businesses are not allowed to offer plastic bags to shoppers. This doesn\u2019t include plastic bags for meat, seafood, bakery goods, and flowers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">If you don\u2019t have a recyclable bag, it may be time to invest in one. Besides, you are helping the environment by using one moving forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI\u2019m a supporter of it. Anything that we can to get rid of excess plastic. I got my reusable bag. Everyone else can get theirs,\u201d Josh Gudelski said. \u201cIt\u2019s the same shopping experience. I\u2019m just not using plastic bags.\u201d <\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:768.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:66.66667175292969%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bigstock-Multiple-Plastic-Shopping-Bags-239117521-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"bigstock-Multiple-Plastic-Shopping-Bags-239117521-768x512.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bigstock-Multiple-Plastic-Shopping-Bags-239117521-768x512.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bigstock-Multiple-Plastic-Shopping-Bags-239117521-768x512.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"768x512\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"bigstock-Multiple-Plastic-Shopping-Bags-239117521-768x512.jpg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5d87dc673a083911909cc2f9\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Starting in 2021, businesses are not allowed to offer plastic bags to shoppers in Hamden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,236,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-qnn","category-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}