{"id":708,"date":"2022-05-30T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/prohibicion-de-plasticos-de-un-solo-uso-en-guatemala\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:33:53","slug":"prohibicion-de-plasticos-de-un-solo-uso-en-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/prohibicion-de-plasticos-de-un-solo-uso-en-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on single-use plastics in Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On September 20, 2019, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources published Government Agreement 189-2019 through which\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the use and distribution of single-use plastic bags, plastic straws, plates and glasses is\u00a0<\/span><b>prohibited<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0at the national level. disposable plastics, disposable plastic mixers and stirrers, disposable plastic containers or containers for storing or transporting food;\u00a0as well as expanded polystyrene products (duroport) used to store or transport food\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that time, a period of two (2) years was set for all individuals or legal entities that use the aforementioned products to replace them with articles made with materials that comply with the European Union standard UNE-EN 13432.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b>This term expires on September 21, 2021<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recommend taking this issue into consideration since the Government Agreement has not been suspended or repealed, and as it is in force it becomes a mandatory rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZONE has a team of experienced professionals who can advise you on the scope of this prohibition and the due environmental compliance of your company in Guatemala.\u00a0For more information, contact us at +502 2225-7000 or by email at rfuentes@zone-es.com.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 20, 2019, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources published Government Agreement 189-2019 through which\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the use and distribution of single-use plastic bags, plastic straws, plates and glasses is\u00a0prohibited\u00a0at the national level. disposable plastics, disposable plastic mixers and stirrers, disposable plastic containers or containers for storing or transporting food;\u00a0as well as expanded polystyrene products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-blog-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,63,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","category-environment","category-guatemala-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone-es.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}