{"id":17382,"date":"2024-01-07T21:54:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T21:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=17382"},"modified":"2024-01-07T21:54:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T21:54:58","slug":"increasing-use-of-plastic-dishes-in-baghlan-sparks-health-concerns-doctors-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/01\/increasing-use-of-plastic-dishes-in-baghlan-sparks-health-concerns-doctors-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing use of plastic dishes in Baghlan sparks health concerns, doctors warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BAGHLAN (SW) &#8211; Residents of Pol-e-Khomri, the center of Baghlan, note a recent surge in the usage of plastic and disposable dishes in local restaurants and roadside establishments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Local residents of Baghlan, express concern that restaurants serve food to customers in plastic and disposable dishes, which they believe that using these dishes poses health risks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We ask the people not to use single-use and plastic dishes. Whether at home, in the city or in the market, they should always use glass dishes,&#8221; a resident of Pol-e-Khomri, Mohammad Akbar said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns, some ice cream vendors, juice sellers, and restaurant owners in Pol-e-Khomri say that they prefer using glass dishes; however, they mention that citizens often prefer receiving their orders in plastic dishes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We buy plastic bottles from clubs that are clean,&#8221; says Nusratullah, a juice seller. &#8220;We consume 15 to 20 daily. Now it is winter, no one drinks juice because the weather is cold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doctors in Baghlan urge residents to opt for glass and paper dishes instead of using plastic and disposable ones, emphasizing the health and environmental benefits of such choices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The use of plastic has very dangerous and negative effects on human health. People must avoid using plastic and disposable dishes,&#8221; says Rafi Aref, director of environmental health at the Baghlan Department of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors consistently caution that the use of plastic dishes, particularly for hot foods, is considered one of the factors contributing to the risk of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHLAN (SW) &#8211; Residents of Pol-e-Khomri, the center of Baghlan, note a recent surge in the usage of plastic and disposable dishes in local restaurants and roadside establishments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,984,16,218,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-report","category-health","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":54,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17383,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382\/revisions\/17383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}