{"id":1,"date":"2018-09-22T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T09:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-03-22T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T11:33:53","slug":"the-co-op-compostable-carrier-rolls-out-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/the-co-op-compostable-carrier-rolls-out-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Co-op compostable carrier rolls-out nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/co-op-compostable-carrier-news-image-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014 The Co-op was the first supermarket to offer customers the option of taking away a dual-use compostable carrier bag rather than a plastic one. The GCS Green Carrier bag is based on their original design and our bag is basically identical to theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today The Co-op announced that in around 1,400 stores across England, Scotland and Wales they are removing single-use plastic carrier bags from sale completely and replacing them with their dual-use compostable carrrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change will start in towns cities and villages where the bags are accepted in council food waste collections, but this is the start of a phased rollout to all 2,600 Co-op stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change will ultimately remove an estimated 60m plastic single-use carrier bags from circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014 The Co-op was the first supermarket to offer customers the option of taking away a dual-use compostable carrier bag rather than a plastic one. The GCS Green Carrier bag is based on their original design and our bag is basically identical to theirs. Today The Co-op announced that in around 1,400 stores across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"theboss","author_link":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/author\/theboss\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"In 2014 The Co-op was the first supermarket to offer customers the option of taking away a dual-use compostable carrier bag rather than a plastic one. The GCS Green Carrier bag is based on their original design and our bag is basically identical to theirs. Today The Co-op announced that in around 1,400 stores across&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencarrierscheme.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}