{"id":7126,"date":"2011-11-29T13:41:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:55:39","slug":"shops-generous-with-bag-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/shops-generous-with-bag-charge","title":{"rendered":"Shops generous with bag charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cardiff shops will donate bag charge money to support charities<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; line-height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_7138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/summer-2011-038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7138\" title=\"summer 2011 038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/summer-2011-038.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most shops are donating money raised from carrier bag sales (Image courtesy of Liz Thomas)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>91% of Cardiff shops will pass on the money collected by the mandatory bag charge to charity, a recent survey found.<\/p>\n<p>Despite no legal obligation to do so, a survey found most retailers are passing on the proceeds to charity. The survey, carried out by Cardiff University\u2019s Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society(BRASS), looked into how retailers have implemented the mandatory charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lori Frater, research manager, was surprised how many companies were donating the money to charity.\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Welsh Government had only recommended that the charge should be passed on to good causes.\u201d said Lori.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As many companies only have a few outlets in Wales, it is likely the carrier bag proceeds will be used by charities elsewhere in the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff shops will donate bag charge money to support charities\u00a0 91% of Cardiff shops will pass on the money collected by the mandatory bag charge to charity, a recent survey found. Despite no legal obligation to do so, a survey found most retailers are passing on the proceeds to charity. The survey, carried out by&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/shops-generous-with-bag-charge\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-caret-right icon-caret-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1270,60,62,1269,1271],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shops generous with bag charge - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/shops-generous-with-bag-charge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shops generous with bag charge - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cardiff shops will donate bag charge money to support charities\u00a0 91% of Cardiff shops will pass on the money collected by the mandatory bag charge to charity, a recent survey found. Despite no legal obligation to do so, a survey found most retailers are passing on the proceeds to charity. The survey, carried out by... Read More\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/shops-generous-with-bag-charge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-29T13:41:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-10-07T10:55:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/\",\"name\":\"alt.cardiff\",\"description\":\"If it\\u2019s offbeat and in Cardiff then it\\u2019s online here.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/shops-generous-with-bag-charge#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/summer-2011-038.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/shops-generous-with-bag-charge#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/shops-generous-with-bag-charge\",\"name\":\"Shops generous with bag charge - alt.cardiff\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/shops-generous-with-bag-charge#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-11-29T13:41:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-07T10:55:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/34d0ea86f9ec8130e4085bb0592503c0\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/shops-generous-with-bag-charge\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/34d0ea86f9ec8130e4085bb0592503c0\",\"name\":\"altcardiff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/251d18ae391aa476d090c1eb0e8b3365?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"altcardiff\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}