{"id":82434,"date":"2018-09-09T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/ocean-cleanup-steams-out-to-sea-in-test-run-to-clean-great-pacific-garbage-patch"},"modified":"2018-09-09T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:03:17","slug":"ocean-cleanup-steams-out-to-sea-in-test-run-to-clean-great-pacific-garbage-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/ocean-cleanup-steams-out-to-sea-in-test-run-to-clean-great-pacific-garbage-patch","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Cleanup steams out to sea in test run to clean Great Pacific Garbage Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ocean-cleanup-steams-out-to-sea-in-test-run-to-clean-great-pacific-garbage-patch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, it will be towed out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch nearly 1,400 miles off the West Coast, about halfway between California and Hawaii. A support vessel will fish out the collected plastic every few weeks, according to the Associated Press. The waste will then be transported to dry land for recycling.<\/p>\n<p>Shipping containers filled with the collected plastic are expected back on land within a year.<\/p>\n<p>The project is lauded by many as a positive attempt to deal with the growing problem of plastic pollution in the oceans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/2018\/09\/08\/ocean-cleanup-steam-out-sea-saturday-plastic-pollution-quest\/1229694002\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/2018\/09\/08\/ocean...229694002\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If all goes well, it will be towed out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch nearly 1,400 miles off the West Coast, about halfway between California and Hawaii. A support vessel will fish out the collected plastic every few weeks, according to the Associated Press. The waste will then be transported to dry land for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82434","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}