{"id":6232,"date":"2015-02-10T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6232"},"modified":"2015-02-10T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T08:39:22","slug":"taiwan-leads-the-way-on-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/02\/10\/taiwan-leads-the-way-on-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan leads the way on waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiring <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.good.is\/articles\/taiwan-trash-program?utm_source=thedailygood&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=dailygood\">news<\/a>\u00a0from Taiwan about waste. \u00a0If the trend shown in this graph continues, Taiwanese folk will soon be generating negative amounts of waste. \u00a0So inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/02\/Taiwan_IG.jpgs1300x13001.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-6234 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/02\/Taiwan_IG.jpgs1300x13001-1024x516.jpeg\" alt=\"Taiwan_IG.jpg=s1300x1300\" width=\"953\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/02\/Taiwan_IG.jpgs1300x13001-1024x516.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/02\/Taiwan_IG.jpgs1300x13001-300x151.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/02\/Taiwan_IG.jpgs1300x13001.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So how has Taiwan done it? \u00a0First, through education. \u00a0School children receive environmentally themed lessons as part of the curriculum from kindergarten all the way through high school. \u00a0But it doesn\u2019t end there. \u00a0All government officials \u2014 including president and prime minister \u2014 must get\u00a0at least four hours of environmental education each year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that's something for the UK's political manifestos. \u00a0I hope the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepbritaintidy.org\/home\/481\">Untidy Britain Group<\/a> is taking note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiring news\u00a0from Taiwan about waste. \u00a0If the trend shown in this graph continues, Taiwanese folk will soon be generating negative amounts of waste. \u00a0So inspiring. So how has Taiwan done it? \u00a0First, through education. \u00a0School children receive environmentally themed lessons...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}