{"id":17117,"date":"2018-07-09T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17117"},"modified":"2018-07-09T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:11:10","slug":"more-recycling-wont-solve-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17117","title":{"rendered":"More Recycling Won&#8217;t Solve Plastic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The real problem is that single-use plastic\u2014the very idea of producing plastic items like grocery bags, which <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.5gyres.org\/plastic-bags\/\">we use for an average of 12 minutes<\/a><\/u> but can persist in the environment for half a millennium\u2014is an incredibly reckless abuse of technology. Encouraging individuals to recycle more will never solve the problem of a massive production of single-use plastic that should have been avoided in the first place<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/more-recycling-wont-solve-plastic-pollution\/\">More Recycling Won&#8217;t Solve Plastic Pollution &#8211; Scientific American Blog Network<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real problem is that single-use plastic\u2014the very idea of producing plastic items like grocery bags, which we use for an average of 12 minutes but can persist in the environment for half a millennium\u2014is an incredibly reckless abuse of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-17117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17118,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17117\/revisions\/17118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}