{"id":21881,"date":"2014-12-17T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=21881"},"modified":"2014-12-17T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:29:10","slug":"study-says-270000-tons-of-plastic-floating-in-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2014\/12\/study-says-270000-tons-of-plastic-floating-in-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Says 270,000 Tons of Plastic Floating in Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Plastics-in-our-oceans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Plastics-in-our-oceans.jpg\" alt=\"Plastics in our oceans\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Plastics-in-our-oceans.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Plastics-in-our-oceans-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Plastics-in-our-oceans-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A new study estimates nearly 270,000 tons of plastic is floating in the world\u2019s oceans. That\u2019s enough to fill more than 38,500 garbage <span class=\"s1\">trucks<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The plastic is broken up into more than 5 trillion pieces, said the study published Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The paper is the latest in a nascent field where scientists are trying to <span class=\"s1\">better<\/span> understand how much of the synthetic material is entering the oceans and how it\u2019s affecting fish, seabirds and the larger marine ecosystem. <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2014\/12\/11\/study-270000-tons-of-plastic-floating-in-oceans\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study estimates nearly 270,000 tons of plastic is floating in the world\u2019s oceans. That\u2019s enough to fill more than 38,500 garbage trucks. The plastic is broken up into more than 5 trillion pieces, said the study published Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. The paper is the latest in a nascent field where scientists are trying to better understand how much of the synthetic material is entering the oceans and how it\u2019s affecting fish, seabirds and the larger marine ecosystem. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[293],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21885,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions\/21885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}