{"id":11961,"date":"2014-08-02T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11961"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:05:55","slug":"this-floating-platform-could-filter-the-plastic-from-our-polluted-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/this-floating-platform-could-filter-the-plastic-from-our-polluted-oceans","title":{"rendered":"This Floating Platform Could Filter the Plastic from our Polluted Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ArchDaily<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPlastic is an extremely durable material, taking 500 years to biodegrade, yet it\u2019s designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so it\u2019s thrown away. Few know where this mass of junk will end up \u2026 in the oceans, killing and silently destroying everything, even us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cristian Ehrmantraut has developed a prototype for a floating platform that filters the ocean and absorbs plastic. Located 4 km from the coast of <a class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Easter Island\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/easter-island\/\" rel=\"tag\">Easter Island<\/a>, close to the center of the mega-vortex of plastic located in the South Pacific, the tetrahedral platform performs a kind of dialysis, allowing the natural environment to be recovered as well as energy and food to be produced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/527863\/this-floating-platform-could-filter-the-plastic-from-our-polluted-oceans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArchDaily \u201cPlastic is an extremely durable material, taking 500 years to biodegrade, yet it\u2019s designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so it\u2019s thrown away. Few know where this mass of junk will end up \u2026 in the oceans, killing and silently destroying everything, even us.\u201d Cristian Ehrmantraut has developed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64931,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961\/revisions\/64931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}