{"id":103744,"date":"2020-03-13T19:42:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/invisible-plastics-in-water"},"modified":"2020-03-13T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:42:24","slug":"invisible-plastics-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/invisible-plastics-in-water","title":{"rendered":"Invisible plastics in water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/invisible-plastics-in-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants, where they end up as sludge, in landfills, and often as fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>Neither scenario is good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are drinking lots of plastics,\u201d said Indranil Chowdhury, an assistant professor in WSU\u2019s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who led the research. \u201cWe are drinking almost a few grams of plastics every month or so. That is concerning because you don\u2019t know what will happen after 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants, where they end up as sludge, in landfills, and often as fertilizer. Neither scenario is good. \u201cWe are drinking lots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}