{"id":20733,"date":"2016-01-13T19:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T03:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/half-of-plastic-trash-in-oceans-comes-from-5-countries"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:15:57","slug":"half-of-plastic-trash-in-oceans-comes-from-5-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/half-of-plastic-trash-in-oceans-comes-from-5-countries","title":{"rendered":"Half of plastic trash in oceans comes from 5 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/half-of-plastic-trash-in-oceans-comes-from-5-countries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If true, this might mean there\u2019s a \u201clow hanging fruit\u201d solution to ocean gyre garbage \u2014 a targeted effort to improve garbage collection in a small number of cities in developing nations, might dramatically reduce it. Hint, hint, <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gatesfoundation\/>Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>! Side benefit would be greatly improving the lives of people in those cities, with some obvious health benefits along the way.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Economic growth in these countries is outpacing infrastructure, and their trash is collecting in the sea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/01\/13\/half-of-plastic-trash-in-oceans-comes-from-5-countries.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If true, this might mean there\u2019s a \u201clow hanging fruit\u201d solution to ocean gyre garbage \u2014 a targeted effort to improve garbage collection in a small number of cities in developing nations, might dramatically reduce it. Hint, hint, Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation! Side benefit would be greatly improving the lives of people in those [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1495,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-health","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733","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\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68845,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions\/68845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}