{"id":90277,"date":"2019-05-04T23:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T06:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-worlds-largest-ocean-cleanup-has-officially-begun"},"modified":"2019-05-04T23:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T06:22:12","slug":"the-worlds-largest-ocean-cleanup-has-officially-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-worlds-largest-ocean-cleanup-has-officially-begun","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Largest Ocean Cleanup Has Officially Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-largest-ocean-cleanup-has-officially-begun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ambitious dreams have now become a reality as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoceancleanup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.theoceancleanup.com\">Ocean Cleanup<\/a> deploys its $20 million system designed to clean up the 1.8 trillion pieces of trash floating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch\">Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/a>. Check out another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeffkart\/2018\/08\/28\/the-ocean-cleanup-is-starting-aims-to-cut-garbage-patch-by-90-by-2040\/#2bb85ad253ed\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeffkart\/2018\/08\/28\/the-ocean-cleanup-is-starting-aims-to-cut-garbage-patch-by-90-by-2040\/#2bb85ad253ed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes piece on how Ocean Cleanup<\/a> aims to reuse and recycle the ocean plastic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/trevornace\/2018\/09\/10\/the-worlds-largest-ocean-cleanup-has-officially-begun\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambitious dreams have now become a reality as the Ocean Cleanup deploys its $20 million system designed to clean up the 1.8 trillion pieces of trash floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Check out another Forbes piece on how Ocean Cleanup aims to reuse and recycle the ocean plastic. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90277","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}