{"id":48315,"date":"2023-08-08T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=48315"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:08:02","slug":"two-million-tonnes-of-plastic-is-floating-on-the-surface-of-the-oceans-eight-times-worse-than-previously-thought-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/08\/two-million-tonnes-of-plastic-is-floating-on-the-surface-of-the-oceans-eight-times-worse-than-previously-thought-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Two million tonnes of plastic is floating on the surface of the oceans &#8211; EIGHT TIMES worse than previously thought, research finds"},"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-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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As much as two million tonnes of plastic is floating on the surface of our oceans \u2013 eight times more than was previously thought, according to new research. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/two-million-tonnes-of-plastic-is-floating-on-the-surface-of-the-oceans-eight-times-worse-than-previously-thought-research-finds\/ar-AA1eVD5v?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=b208cb4dd5534b6282cfc8d2dfeb11c7&amp;ei=30\">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>As much as two million tonnes of plastic is floating on the surface of our oceans \u2013 eight times more than was&#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-48315","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\/48315","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=48315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48316,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48315\/revisions\/48316"}],"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=48315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}