{"id":50923,"date":"2023-10-12T07:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T07:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=50923"},"modified":"2023-10-12T07:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T07:53:40","slug":"half-a-billion-cheap-electrical-items-go-to-uk-landfills-in-a-year-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/12\/half-a-billion-cheap-electrical-items-go-to-uk-landfills-in-a-year-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a billion cheap electrical items go to UK landfills in a year, 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-50924\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Landfill-300x180.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Landfill-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Landfill-360x216.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Landfill.jpeg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A<\/span>lmost half a billion small, cheap electrical everyday items from headphones to handheld fans ended up in landfill in the UK in the past year, according to research. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/half-a-billion-cheap-electrical-items-go-to-uk-landfills-in-a-year-research-finds\/ar-AA1i4Kpq?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=06226b08894a4c71a79b766c580dd264&amp;ei=26\">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>Almost half a billion small, cheap electrical everyday items from headphones to handheld fans ended up in landfill in the UK in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50923","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\/2023\/10\/Landfill.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50923","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=50923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50925,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50923\/revisions\/50925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}