{"id":4907,"date":"2015-11-30T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-plastic-bag-busters-group-to-show-documentary\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:15:29","slug":"kent-plastic-bag-busters-group-to-show-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-plastic-bag-busters-group-to-show-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent plastic Bag Busters group to show documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Learn more about a drive in Kent to ban plastic bags by watching the documentary &#8220;Bag It&#8221; on Monday, Dec. 21 at the Kent Regional Library, 212 Second Ave. N.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The free showings are at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The 2010 movie exposes the effects of plastic bags and other plastic consumer merchandise, on land ecosystems, the marine environment and the human body.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Refreshments will be provided. People are asked to bring their own reuseable cup for beverages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Bag Busters \u2013 People for a Plastic Free Kent continues to gather signatures in an effort to get a city ordinance to ban single-use plastic bags.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The group wants a ban similar to the one the Seattle City Council adopted in 2011 because the plastic bags are bad for the environment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more information, go to <a title=\"bags\" href=\"http:\/\/bagbusters.org\/\" target=\"_self\">bagbusters.org<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about a drive in Kent to ban plastic bags by watching the documentary &#8220;Bag It&#8221; on Monday, Dec. 21 at the Kent Regional Library, 212 Second Ave. N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":4908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}