{"id":11119,"date":"2018-06-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/?p=11119"},"modified":"2026-10-21T18:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T18:27:24","slug":"world-environment-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/news\/world-environment-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Environment Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Environment Day<\/strong> is celebrated every 5 June, and this year’s theme is saying no to single-use plastics<\/strong> and the pollution they cause. Disposable plastic bags, utensils, packaging and straws are in everyday use, yet most people are unaware that they can take up to a century to break down.<\/p>\n

This year, World Environment Day has been used to call for an end to these misuses of plastic and the serious environmental impacts they cause.<\/p>\n

The most common disposable plastic products have viable, sustainable alternatives:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Plastic bags<\/strong> \u2192 fabric, raffia or paper bags, etc.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Plastic bottles<\/strong> \u2192 stainless steel, leather, aluminium or glass bottles. Say no to plastic bottles in shops and restaurants: there is always a more sustainable alternative.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Plastic cutlery<\/strong> \u2192 stainless steel, bamboo or corn-starch cutlery.<\/p>\n

Plastic should be used responsibly, bearing in mind that marine life is hardest hit by plastic pollution. Large numbers of marine animals die every year from plastic-related causes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These impacts are not limited to marine life: studies have found microplastics in drinking water in several countries.<\/p>\n

So much disposable plastic is consumed, and it takes so long to break down, that a huge accumulation of plastic waste has formed in the Pacific Ocean, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, sometimes called the ‘seventh continent’.<\/p>\n

As an environmental services company that cares about the environment<\/strong>, KEIKEN<\/strong> is committed to a present and future without disposable plastic, promoting reusable containers and environmentally friendly materials.<\/p>\n

For our services or more information, email info@keiken.es or contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year World Environment Day focuses on single-use plastics. Sustainable alternatives to the most common disposable plastic products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-trade-shows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11836,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions\/11836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}