The\nBreak Free From Plastic Pledge calls for the creation of a purchasing policy\nand zero-waste committee to oversee the elimination of as many single use\nplastics as possible from Bellevue College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Signing this petition<\/a> will demonstrate that this\nissue is important to the students, staff, and faculty of Bellevue College. It\nwill encourage the institution to sign The Break Free From Plastic Pledge, and\nto begin immediately working on solutions within Bellevue College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Single\nuse plastics damage our environment in many ways. From the emissions produced\nwhen single use plastics are created from fossil fuel sources, to the fact that\na \u201cstaggering 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in the world\u2019s oceans every\nyear\u201d as \u201conly 9% of all plastic waste ever produced has been recycled\u201d (UN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n To\nlearn more and be a part of the movement for change, visit the <\/a>Bellevue College Break\nFree From Plastic petition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Break Free From Plastic Pledge calls for the creation of a purchasing policy and zero-waste committee to oversee the elimination of as many single use plastics as possible from Bellevue College. Signing this petition will demonstrate that this issue is important to the students, staff, and faculty of Bellevue College. It will encourage the ...more about Help Bellevue College BREAK FREE FROM PLASTIC by signing this petition!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":17341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17342,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17340\/revisions\/17342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}