{"id":24319,"date":"2015-12-03T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=24319"},"modified":"2015-12-03T13:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T13:06:25","slug":"biodegradable-plastics-dont-work-at-sea-says-new-un-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/12\/biodegradable-plastics-dont-work-at-sea-says-new-un-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodegradable Plastics Don\u2019t Work At Sea &#8211; Says New UN Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t discard \u2018Biodegradable\u2019 plastics at sea\u201d says a new report from the United Nations because\u00a0biodegradable plastics don\u2019t disintegrate in the ocean.\u00a0Complete degradation of biodegradable plastic occurs when none of the original polymer remains, a process involving microbial action (i.e. it is broken down to carbon dioxide, methane and water) but this process requires microbes\u00a0found in soil and prolonged temperature above 50\u00b0C. Such conditions are rarely met in the marine environment. <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/biodegradable-plastics-dont-work-sea-says-new-un-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t discard \u2018Biodegradable\u2019 plastics at sea\u201d says a new report from the United Nations because\u00a0biodegradable plastics don\u2019t disintegrate in the ocean.\u00a0Complete degradation of biodegradable plastic occurs when none of the original polymer remains, a process involving microbial action (i.e. it is broken down to carbon dioxide, methane and water) but this process requires microbes\u00a0found in soil and prolonged temperature above 50\u00b0C. Such conditions are rarely met in the marine environment. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24319"}],"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=24319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24321,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24319\/revisions\/24321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}