{"id":280409,"date":"2019-07-05T06:28:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280409"},"modified":"2019-07-05T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T10:24:12","slug":"delhis-igi-to-be-indias-first-no-plastic-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhis-igi-to-be-indias-first-no-plastic-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi&#8217;s IGI to be India\u2019s first no-plastic airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In the next five months, Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport will become the first in the country to be entirely free of single-use (disposable) plastic. The project covers all three terminals and the airside portion of the airport.<br \/>\nThe initiative, in line with India&#8217;s pledge to eliminate all single-use plastic by 2022, will be replicated in other airports as well.<br \/>\nIGIA currently doesn&#8217;t allow the use of plastic for grocery bags, food packaging, bottles, straws, containers, cups and cutlery, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) officials said. Outlets in its terminals have replaced single-use plastic with paper and bio-based compostable materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In the next five months, Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport will become the first in the country to be entirely free of single-use (disposable) plastic. The project covers all three terminals and the airside portion of the airport. The initiative, in line with India&#8217;s pledge to eliminate all single-use plastic by 2022, will be replicated in other airports as well. IGIA currently doesn&#8217;t allow the use of plastic for grocery bags, food packaging, bottles, straws, containers, cups and cutlery, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) officials said. Outlets in its terminals have replaced single-use plastic with paper and bio-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}