{"id":56643,"date":"2024-03-08T03:56:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T03:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=56643"},"modified":"2024-03-08T03:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T03:56:48","slug":"microplastics-ban-and-nigerias-osun-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/08\/microplastics-ban-and-nigerias-osun-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Microplastics ban and Nigeria\u2019s Osun River"},"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-44153\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/microplastic-in-water-300x210.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/microplastic-in-water-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/microplastic-in-water-770x539.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/microplastic-in-water-360x252.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/microplastic-in-water.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The sacred Osun River in Nigeria has recorded the highest measured level of microplastics in a river in the world, and researchers are calling for a ban on single-use plastics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/microplastic-ban-in-nigeria\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/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 sacred Osun River in Nigeria has recorded the highest measured level of microplastics in a river in the world, and researchers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56643","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\/2024\/03\/microplastics-dangers.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56643","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=56643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56645,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56643\/revisions\/56645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}