{"id":210513,"date":"2022-04-08T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?p=210513"},"modified":"2022-04-08T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:26:55","slug":"will-the-plastic-bag-ban-in-n-j-help-the-environment-heres-what-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2022\/04\/08\/will-the-plastic-bag-ban-in-n-j-help-the-environment-heres-what-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the plastic bag ban in N.J. help the environment? Here\u2019s what experts say."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yes, it\u2019s getting too late with each passing day, but if we just say no, it will not make a difference. So if we don\u2019t do anything, that is much worse than doing something. I always argue that not taking an action is basically adding to the problem rather than being part of the solution. It\u2019s not like we have to solve the full problem&#8230; but we have to believe that if we take incremental steps, we can make collective change<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Dr. Lal told NJ Advance Media<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So no, the plastic bag ban is not going to solve the issue of environmental pollution alone. But Lal said concerted efforts to address the problem, by governments and regular people, will go a long way toward improving things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2022\/04\/will-the-plastic-bag-ban-in-nj-help-the-environment-heres-what-experts-say.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article on NJ.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Pankaj Lal, Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies, speaks with Jackie Roman about the upcoming bag ban<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":210517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cesac","category-eaes","category-in-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210516,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210513\/revisions\/210516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}