{"id":19475,"date":"2024-03-30T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T09:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=19475"},"modified":"2024-03-30T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T09:19:43","slug":"guterres-warns-of-global-garbage-crisis-on-world-zero-waste-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/03\/guterres-warns-of-global-garbage-crisis-on-world-zero-waste-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Guterres warns of global garbage crisis on World Zero Waste Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; On occasion of World Zero Waste Day, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, has stated that the earth is drowning under a torrent of trash.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Guterres wrote on X, saying that humans produce two billion tons of solid municipal waste annually and the world must strive for a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overconsumption is killing us. Humanity needs an intervention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Guterres urged everyone to put an end to the destructive cycle of waste production.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our planet is drowning under a torrent of trash.<\/p>\n<p>Overconsumption is killing us.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity needs an intervention.<\/p>\n<p>We must end the destructive cycle of waste, once and for all.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ZeroWasteDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ZeroWasteDay<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wL4seKAk6b\">https:\/\/t.co\/wL4seKAk6b<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/raJR8y1kNz\">pic.twitter.com\/raJR8y1kNz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (@antonioguterres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antonioguterres\/status\/1773831922088579128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>March 30, was named as World Zero Waste Day by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2022.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; On occasion of World Zero Waste Day, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, has stated that the earth is drowning under a torrent of trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-environment","category-headline"],"views":76,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475","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=19475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19479,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions\/19479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}