{"id":316530,"date":"2019-05-13T15:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=316530"},"modified":"2019-05-13T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T13:03:53","slug":"some-of-south-africas-biggest-shopping-malls-are-banning-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/316530\/some-of-south-africas-biggest-shopping-malls-are-banning-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of South Africa&#8217;s biggest shopping malls are banning plastic bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) &#8211; with a property portfolio including Sandton City, Eastgate and Melrose Arch &#8211; has announced that it will appoint a \u2018no plastic shopping bags\u2019 policy across its malls by 1 January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the company said that it has partnered with an Alexandra community-based organisation called Bana Bags to introduce plastic free bags into its centres to ensure the continuation of education to encourage sustainable and environmentally friendly ways of doing business.<\/p>\n<p>It has also initiated the introduction of recycling drop-off booths in Sandton City and at Eastgate Shopping Centre and will be rolling this out throughout its portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith rising levels of plastic pollution in our country and oceans, it is no longer a case of best practice to eradicate the use of plastic shopping bags but rather a commitment of paramount importance and necessity,&#8221; said Amelia Beattie, chief executive of L2D.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are committed to implementing this initiative to drive our sustainability imperative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The policy will be effective 1 January 2020 and as a sector benchmark, we are keen to continue to transform the retail industry in an environmentally sustainable manner,\u201d Beattie said.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Two Degrees&#8217;portfolio includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sandton City;<\/li>\n<li>Nelson Mandela Square;<\/li>\n<li>Melrose Arch;<\/li>\n<li>Eastgate Shopping Centre;<\/li>\n<li>Liberty Promenade;<\/li>\n<li>Liberty Midlands Mall;<\/li>\n<li>Botshabelo Mall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/315146\/how-much-it-costs-to-open-a-top-fast-food-franchise-in-south-africa-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How much it costs to open a top fast food franchise in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) &#8211; with a property portfolio including Sandton City, Eastgate and Melrose Arch &#8211; has announced that it will appoint a \u2018no plastic shopping bags\u2019 policy across its malls by 1 January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":295910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-316530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316540,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316530\/revisions\/316540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}