{"id":31666,"date":"2018-09-21T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=31666"},"modified":"2018-09-21T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:31:40","slug":"recycled-plastic-and-flip-flops-become-a-dhow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/09\/recycled-plastic-and-flip-flops-become-a-dhow\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycled Plastic and Flip Flops become a Dhow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kenyan Ben Morison looked around at the amount of plastic waste and started the Flipflopi Project. The dhow successfully set sail last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(UN Environment) Ben Morison\u2019s epiphany came early one morning as he set out for a swim on Kenya\u2019s Indian Ocean coast. The Kenyan tour operator counted 13 pieces of plastic, including bottles and flip flops, as he walked to the sea. With a jolt, he realized how degraded the coastline he loved \u2013 and marketed as a dream destination \u2013 had become. He had to act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all too easy to look to the left or the right and wait for somebody else to do something but I thought, \u2018What can I do that could help bring this to light, and be fun and cheerful?\u2019,\u201d he says.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mail.cruisingcompass.com\/t\/r-l-jjdjtrtt-khmohhq-jd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan Ben Morison looked around at the amount of plastic waste and started the Flipflopi Project. The dhow successfully set sail last week. &nbsp; (UN Environment) Ben Morison\u2019s epiphany came early one morning as he set out for a swim on Kenya\u2019s Indian Ocean coast. The Kenyan tour operator counted 13 pieces of plastic, including bottles and flip flops, as he walked to the sea. With a jolt, he realized how degraded the coastline he loved \u2013 and marketed as a dream destination \u2013 had become. He had to act. \u201cIt\u2019s all too easy to look to the left or the right and wait for somebody else to do something but I thought, \u2018What can I do that could help bring this to light, and be fun and cheerful?\u2019,\u201d he says.\u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31666"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31667,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31666\/revisions\/31667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}