{"id":72824,"date":"2025-03-02T07:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72824"},"modified":"2025-03-02T07:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:58:43","slug":"three-essential-things-to-know-about-microplastics-and-how-to-avoid-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/02\/three-essential-things-to-know-about-microplastics-and-how-to-avoid-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Three essential things to know about microplastics \u2013 and how to avoid them"},"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=\"size-medium wp-image-46942\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/plastic-bags-fruits-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a recent trip to New Orleans, the king cake baby became, for me, a symbol of plastic\u2019s ubiquity in the food system. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2025\/mar\/01\/how-to-avoid-microplastics\">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>On a recent trip to New Orleans, the king cake baby became, for me, a symbol of plastic\u2019s ubiquity in the food&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72824","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\/11\/Microwave.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72824","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=72824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72825,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72824\/revisions\/72825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}