{"id":24868,"date":"2020-09-13T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T10:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=24868"},"modified":"2020-09-13T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T10:16:17","slug":"coronavirus-disposable-masks-causing-enormous-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/13\/coronavirus-disposable-masks-causing-enormous-plastic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Disposable masks &#8216;causing enormous plastic waste&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24869\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/masks_beach-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/masks_beach-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/masks_beach-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/masks_beach-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/masks_beach.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The government has been urged to do more to get people to switch from disposable masks to reusable coverings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-54057799\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The government has been urged to do more to get people to switch from disposable masks to reusable coverings. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/masks_beach.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24870,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868\/revisions\/24870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}