{"id":53465,"date":"2021-07-13T07:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T04:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=53465"},"modified":"2021-07-17T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T12:19:59","slug":"6-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/6-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss cities given mixed ratings for recycling plastic packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace Switzerland conducted a studyExternal link on single-use packaging and other disposable plastic products. Basel achieves a near perfect score of 5.5 out of 6, but five cities only muster a score of 2. Each year, the average Swiss resident generates nearly 100kg of plastic waste \u2013 more than three times as much as the European average. Only 25% of plastic waste is recycled, a figure well behind other European countries.<\/p>\n<p>Despite some recent measures, such as shops charging customers for plastic bags, Switzerland has no plans to copy the European Union\u2019s plan to ensure that all plastic packaging is recyclable. The amount of poorly disposed plastic is blighting the Alpine nation. A 2019 study measuring plastic pollution found that the concentration of microplastic in Lake Geneva was as high as in the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Basel and the Swiss capital, Bern, stand out as good performers. However, Zurich and Geneva feature in the lower reaches of the league table. The study does note, however, that Neuch\u00e2tel and Geneva have recently announced new recycling measures that are too late to be included in the study. Switzerland is Europe\u2019s fourth-largest producer of waste per head of population, says Greenpeace. The environmental NGO has urged Switzerland to improve its record.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/cantons-given-mixed-ratings-for-recycling-plastic-packaging\/46779052\">SwissInfo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Greenpeace Switzerland conducted a studyExternal link on single-use packaging and other disposable plastic products. Basel achieves a near perfect score of 5.5 out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,77],"tags":[2258,398,1972],"class_list":["post-53465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","category-weeks-highlights","tag-plastic-packaging","tag-recycling","tag-switzerland","wpcat-31-id","wpcat-77-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Davos_Sveitsi_unsplash.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53584,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53465\/revisions\/53584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}