{"id":49185,"date":"2021-10-28T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/?p=49185"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:06:58","slug":"breaking-up-with-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/resource\/49185\/breaking-up-with-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Up with Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-cta\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/act.gp\/3QFdJen\">Download the FULL GUIDE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/act.gp\/3NWmY83\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2021\/10\/786fe0ad-screenshot-2021-10-28-at-9.30.48-am.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49187\" style=\"width:250px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2021\/10\/786fe0ad-screenshot-2021-10-28-at-9.30.48-am.png 615w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2021\/10\/786fe0ad-screenshot-2021-10-28-at-9.30.48-am-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2021\/10\/786fe0ad-screenshot-2021-10-28-at-9.30.48-am-241x340.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p>Almost two years after it first began, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to raise serious concerns about our environment and future.<br><br>Our choices matter now more than ever; how we protect ourselves in the pandemic inevitably impacts the quality of our surroundings. Everything we do to stay safe, like putting on a mask or shopping online, has its implications.<br><br>There is an urgent need to review our recent consumption of single-use plastics as a society, as well as identify current and future threats and opportunities to the environment as a result of throwaway use.<br><br>We hope that these pages provide you with the information necessary to understand the implications of the pandemic on Malaysia\u2019s consumption and disposal of plastic.<br><br>At the same time, it won\u2019t be all doom and gloom; there will also be<strong> suggestions and ideas to empower you to take action against plastic pollution<\/strong>, whether in your capacity as an individual, collective, or organisation.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-cta\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/act.gp\/3QFdJen\">Download the FULL GUIDE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hope these pages provide you with the information necessary to understand the implications of the pandemic on Malaysia\u2019s consumption and disposal of plastic, while empowering you to take action against plastic pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":49187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[22,103],"p4-page-type":[99],"class_list":["post-49185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational-resource","tag-plastics","tag-green-living","p4-page-type-resource"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49185"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60328,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49185\/revisions\/60328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49185"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=49185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}