{"id":13911,"date":"2019-01-11T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T22:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=13911"},"modified":"2020-06-02T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:46:41","slug":"the-line-albuquerque-considers-banning-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/the-line-albuquerque-considers-banning-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Line: Albuquerque Considers Banning Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Uzfv4_B840\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>January 11, 2019 \u2013 Goodbye to plastic straws for your drinks and plastic bags for your groceries? Four Albuquerque City Councilors recently introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krqe.com\/news\/albuquerque-metro\/councilors-propose-to-eliminate-single-use-plastic-waste-in-albuquerque\/1689508215\">proposal to ban<\/a> single-use plastics at restaurants and retail shops.\u00a0 Santa Fe passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santafenm.gov\/reusable_bag_ordinance\">similar measure<\/a> over a year ago, although it encouraged retailers not to provide plastic items unless asked and did not ban them outright. Gene Grant and the Line opinion panelists debate the pros and cons of a ban on non-reusable plastics in the Duke City.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Line Panelists:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dan Foley, former House minority whip<br \/>\nTom Garrity, the Garrity Group PR<br \/>\nSophie Martin, attorney<br \/>\nChristine Sierra, UNM political science professor emerita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 11, 2019 \u2013 Goodbye to plastic straws for your drinks and plastic bags for your groceries? Four Albuquerque City Councilors recently introduced a proposal to ban single-use plastics at restaurants and retail shops.\u00a0 Santa Fe passed a similar measure over a year ago, although it encouraged retailers not to provide plastic items unless asked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[529],"tags":[377,1911,2582,2584,2579,2581,2577,2583,323,2578,2575,2576,2580],"class_list":["post-13911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-line","tag-albuquerque-city-council","tag-city-councilors","tag-cynthia-borrego","tag-diane-gibson","tag-foam-food-containers","tag-isaac-benton","tag-non-renewable-plastics","tag-pat-davis","tag-plastic-bags","tag-plastic-straws","tag-plastics","tag-plastics-ban","tag-single-use-plastics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Line: Albuquerque Considers Banning Plastics - New Mexico In Focus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/the-line-albuquerque-considers-banning-plastics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Line: Albuquerque Considers Banning Plastics - New Mexico In Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 11, 2019 \u2013 Goodbye to plastic straws for your drinks and plastic bags for your groceries? 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