{"id":39087,"date":"2019-10-23T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/10\/23\/canada-has-a-cannabis-packaging-problem-heres-what-businesses-are-doing-about-it\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:36:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:36:19","slug":"canada-has-a-cannabis-packaging-problem-heres-what-businesses-are-doing-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/10\/23\/canada-has-a-cannabis-packaging-problem-heres-what-businesses-are-doing-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada has a cannabis packaging problem: Here\u2019s what businesses are doing about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>As Canada\u2019s cannabis industry starts to generate the kinds of sales many businesses expected months ago, it\u2019s also creating\u00a0a tremendous amount of packaging waste \u2013 specifically, hard-to-recycle plastics. How much? One cannabis industry executive estimated that\u00a010,000 tons of packaging was generated in the first year of legalization, most of which was destined for landfills instead [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/how-canadian-cannabis-companies-are-handllng-packaging-problems\/\">Canada has a cannabis packaging problem: Here\u2019s what businesses are doing about it<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/how-canadian-cannabis-companies-are-handllng-packaging-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada has a cannabis packaging problem: Here\u2019s what businesses are doing about it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Canada\u2019s cannabis industry starts to generate the kinds of sales many businesses expected months ago, it\u2019s also creating\u00a0a tremendous amount of packaging waste \u2013 specifically, hard-to-recycle plastics. How much? One cannabis industry executive estimated that\u00a010,000 tons of packaging was generated in the first year of legalization, most of which<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/10\/23\/canada-has-a-cannabis-packaging-problem-heres-what-businesses-are-doing-about-it\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[822,178,9657,9658,12721,2786,12722,1152,12723,828,12724,12725],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39088,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39087\/revisions\/39088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}