{"id":28381,"date":"2017-07-04T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=28381"},"modified":"2017-07-04T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T14:22:01","slug":"if-you-drop-plastic-in-the-ocean-where-does-it-end-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/07\/if-you-drop-plastic-in-the-ocean-where-does-it-end-up\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Drop Plastic in the Ocean, Where Does it End up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modeling shows that ocean currents can concentrate slow-degrading debris in certain parts of the world\u2019s oceans, leading to so-called \u2018garbage patches\u2019.\u00a0It is estimated that\u00a0between four and 12m metric tonnes of plastic\u00a0makes its way into the ocean each year. This figure is only likely to rise, and\u00a0a 2016 report predicted\u00a0that by 2050 the amount of plastic in the sea will outweigh the amount of fish. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/jun\/29\/if-you-drop-plastic-in-the-ocean-where-does-it-end-up\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modeling shows that ocean currents can concentrate slow-degrading debris in certain parts of the world\u2019s oceans, leading to so-called \u2018garbage patches\u2019.\u00a0It is estimated that\u00a0between four and 12m metric tonnes of plastic\u00a0makes its way into the ocean each year. This figure is only likely to rise, and\u00a0a 2016 report predicted\u00a0that by 2050 the amount of plastic in the sea will outweigh the amount of fish. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[664,908],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28381"}],"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=28381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28384,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28381\/revisions\/28384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}