{"id":319594,"date":"2017-07-31T06:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T05:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/plastic-chokes-the-seas-2\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T06:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T05:23:26","slug":"plastic-chokes-the-seas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/plastic-chokes-the-seas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Chokes the Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_94484\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94484\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-10.33.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-10.33.22-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-10.33.22-PM-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-10.33.22-PM-768x570.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Iwan Gabovitch | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Plastic is not recycled.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great myths of modern-day society is that people recycle in earnest\u2026 saving the environment. Au contraire! Check out the ocean. It\u2019s filled with plastic. Fish and seabirds eat it by gobs and gobs. Furthermore, according to a World Economic Forum presentation, The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the Future of Plastics, February 2016, by 2050 there will likely be more plastic than fish in the seas, unless socio-economic policies change drastically. But, where\u2019s the leadership?<\/p>\n<p>Only recently National Geographic magazine posted news about a new discovery of massive quantities of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, July 25th, 2017, entitled: Plastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific, stating, \u201cYet another floating mass of microscopic plastic has been discovered in the ocean, and it is mind-blowingly vast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The magazine also shatters the myth that people recycle, in earnest. According to the article, \u201ca whopping 91% of plastic isn\u2019t recycled,\u201d which lends tremendous credence to the prediction at the World Economic Forum that the seas will carry more plastic than fish.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the Great Acceleration, epitomized by plastic\u2019s exponential growth, does not hesitate, onwards and upwards, production and profits, Wall Street and Trump, prosperity only hopefully, but not for most, for as long as the planet holds up\u2026 cough, ahem!<\/p>\n<p>The focus of scientific research on plastic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/07\/28\/plastic-chokes-the-seas\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Iwan Gabovitch | CC BY 2.0 Plastic is not recycled. One of the great myths of modern-day society is that people recycle in earnest\u2026 saving the environment. Au contraire! Check out the ocean. It\u2019s filled with plastic. Fish and seabirds eat it by gobs and gobs. Furthermore, according to a World Economic Forum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}