{"id":31405,"date":"2021-09-01T16:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=31405"},"modified":"2021-09-01T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:23:36","slug":"why%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cis%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cthere%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cso%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cmuch%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cplastic%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cin%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cthe%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cocean%e2%80%8c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/01\/why%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cis%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cthere%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cso%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cmuch%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cplastic%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cin%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cthe%e2%80%8c-%e2%80%8cocean%e2%80%8c\/","title":{"rendered":"Why\u200c \u200cis\u200c \u200cthere\u200c \u200cso\u200c \u200cmuch\u200c \u200cplastic\u200c \u200cin\u200c \u200cthe\u200c \u200cocean?\u200c \u200c"},"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><div class=\"paddle previous loaded\" data-aop=\"paddles_prev\" data-id=\"51\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:51,&quot;p&quot;:50,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;previous&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:14,&quot;o&quot;:1}\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"paddle next loaded\" data-aop=\"paddles_next\" data-id=\"52\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:52,&quot;p&quot;:50,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;next&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:14,&quot;o&quot;:2}\">\n<div class=\"headline \">\n<div>\n<div class=\"truncate\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"articlecontent allowvig loaded\" data-id=\"53\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:53,&quot;p&quot;:50,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;article&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:6,&quot;o&quot;:3}\" data-nativead-placements=\"article_aside:3;singlecard1:1;singlecard2:1;singlecard3:1;singlecard4:1;singlecard5:1;singlecard6:1;singlecard7:1;singlecard8:1;singlecard9:1;singlecard10:1;singlecard11:1;\">\n<section class=\"flexarticle\" data-id=\"54\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:54,&quot;p&quot;:53,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;flexarticle&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:6,&quot;o&quot;:1}\">\n<section class=\"articlebody   \" data-id=\"55\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:55,&quot;p&quot;:54,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;articlebody&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:6,&quot;o&quot;:1}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31406\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/plastic-oceans-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/plastic-oceans-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/plastic-oceans-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/plastic-oceans-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/plastic-oceans.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The planet is drowning in\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/plastic-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"58\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:58,&quot;p&quot;:55,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:3}\">plastic pollution<\/a>. Plastic has been found at the bottom of the world\u2019s deepest ocean trench and lodged deep in Arctic sea ice.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/environment\/why-is-there-so-much-plastic-in-the-ocean\/ar-AANYEZN?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\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 planet is drowning in\u00a0plastic pollution. Plastic has been found at the bottom of the world\u2019s deepest ocean trench and lodged deep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/plastic-oceans.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31405","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=31405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31407,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31405\/revisions\/31407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}