{"id":5960,"date":"2022-08-12T21:51:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/12\/campaigners-call-for-artificial-grass-tax\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:51:40","slug":"campaigners-call-for-artificial-grass-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=5960","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners call for artificial grass tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Campaigners are petitioning the government to introduce a tax on artificial lawns &#8220;in order to act as a deterrent and encourage land owners towards less damaging and more sustainable options&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">One of the campaigners calling for the tax, Charlotte Howard, says plastic grass &#8216;kills anything in the soil beneath&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In a statement, a government spokesperson said &#8220;there are no current plans to introduce a tax on artificial grass&#8221; but that &#8220;in future, developments which involve the laying of artificial grass at the expense of natural landscaping will be required to enhance biodiversity in other ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-62468199?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Campaigners are petitioning the government to introduce a tax on artificial lawns &#8220;in order to act as a deterrent and encourage land owners towards less damaging and more sustainable &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}