{"id":7936,"date":"2020-12-09T12:32:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2020-12-09T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:37:52","slug":"government-quietly-made-back-door-agreement-with-u-s-that-could-undermine-treaty-on-plastic-waste-cbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=7936","title":{"rendered":"Government quietly made &#8216;back door&#8217; agreement with U.S. that could undermine treaty on plastic waste | CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Trudeau government quietly signed a protocol with the U.S. on October 26 that will allow Canada to continue to ship plastic waste to American waste brokers \u2014 opening a &#8216;back door&#8217; that will allow it to evade the plastic waste shipping restrictions the federal government committed to under the Basel Treaty plastic ban.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canada-us-plastic-waste-basel-1.5827340\">Government quietly made &#8216;back door&#8217; agreement with U.S. that could undermine treaty on plastic waste | CBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Basel Convention: http:\/\/www.basel.int\/Implementation\/Plasticwaste\/Overview\/tabid\/8347\/Default.aspx<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trudeau government quietly signed a protocol with the U.S. on October&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,163,162,57],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-plastic","tag-recycling","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}