{"id":24311,"date":"2015-11-26T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=24311"},"modified":"2015-11-26T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:40:56","slug":"plastic-by-the-numbers-in-the-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/11\/plastic-by-the-numbers-in-the-atlantic-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic by the Numbers in the Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ASC_ARC-Infographic1-600x776.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ASC_ARC-Infographic1-600x776.png\" alt=\"ASC_ARC-Infographic1-600x776\" width=\"600\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ASC_ARC-Infographic1-600x776.png 600w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ASC_ARC-Infographic1-600x776-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In late 2014, Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation partnered with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, a fleet of sailboats that makes an annual crossing of the Atlantic.\u00a0In total, 93 of the 251 boats gathered water samples for the Global Microplastic Initiative, contributing 521 samples to ASC&#8217;s dataset and covering\u00a0an estimated 602,000-square-nautical-mile area.\u00a0The following graphic\u00a0helps tell the story. <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/11\/18\/plastic-by-the-numbers-in-the-atlantic-ocean\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2014, Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation partnered with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, a fleet of sailboats that makes an annual crossing of the Atlantic.\u00a0In total, 93 of the 251 boats gathered water samples for the Global Microplastic Initiative, contributing 521 samples to ASC&#8217;s dataset and covering\u00a0an estimated 602,000-square-nautical-mile area.\u00a0The following graphic\u00a0helps tell the story. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24311"}],"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=24311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24313,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24311\/revisions\/24313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}