{"id":74698,"date":"2019-05-11T06:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T04:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=74698"},"modified":"2019-05-11T06:13:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T04:13:22","slug":"ban-of-one-time-use-plastic-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=74698","title":{"rendered":"Ban of &#8216;One Time Use&#8217; Plastic \u2014 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8Z1d5Qo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n(<em>Eco-friendly palm leaf plates and wooden cutlery<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Resolution 307.4 ISKCON \u2014 other<br \/>\n[Guideline]\n(Proposed by Hrdaya Caitanya Das, sponsored by him and Devamrita Swami)<\/p>\n<p>Whereas plastic is often used once-off and then thrown away;<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the lifetime of plastic varies from 50 years to more than 1000 years;<\/p>\n<p>Whereas plastic contaminates mother earth and her inhabitants;<\/p>\n<p>Whereas many ISKCON temples use plastic and foam cups, plates, spoons, water bottles, maha-prasadam packages, plastic bags, etc., once-off and then discard them despite there being biodegradable alternatives;<\/p>\n<p>Whereas Srila Prabhupada states that first you become conscious and then you become Krishna conscious;<\/p>\n<p>Whereas there is an increasing awareness in the general public about such issues and ISKCON should set a proper example:<\/p>\n<p>Resolved:<br \/>\nThat ISKCON centres and members are strongly encouraged to not use single-use plastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pQMnt7G.jpg\" \/><strong>By the GBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Whereas plastic is often used once-off and then thrown away;  Whereas the lifetime of plastic varies from 50 years to more than 1000 years;  Whereas plastic contaminates mother earth and her inhabitants;  Whereas many ISKCON temples use plastic and foam cups, plates, spoons, water bottles, maha-prasadam packages, plastic bags, etc., once-off and then discard them despite there being biodegradable alternatives;  Whereas Srila Prabhupada states that first you become conscious and then you become Krishna conscious;  Whereas there is an increasing awareness in the general public about such issues and ISKCON should set a proper example:  Resolved: That ISKCON centres and members are strongly encouraged to not use single-use plastic.  <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74701,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74698\/revisions\/74701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}