{"id":21715,"date":"2020-08-16T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/16\/the-plastic-we-use-unthinkingly-every-day-is-killing-our-planet-and-slowly-but-surely-killing-us"},"modified":"2020-08-16T05:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T20:00:52","slug":"the-plastic-we-use-unthinkingly-every-day-is-killing-our-planet-and-slowly-but-surely-killing-us-andrew-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21715","title":{"rendered":"The plastic we use unthinkingly every day is killing our planet \u2013 and slowly but surely killing us | Andrew Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As researchers, we have been shocked to find the most remote depths of the Pacific Ocean polluted by our plastic. And it will outlive us all.<\/p>\n<p>Another bottle. Yet another one. We are 200km from land, in the middle of the South Pacific, and this is the third bottle we\u2019ve found already this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere is plastic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/16\/the-plastic-we-use-unthinkingly-every-day-is-killing-our-planet-and-slowly-but-surely-killing-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As researchers, we have been shocked to find the most remote depths of the Pacific Ocean polluted by our plastic. And it will outlive us all.Another bottle. Yet another one. We are 200km from land, in the middle of the South Pacific, and this is the th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1508,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,436,874,266,466,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-plastics","category-pollution","category-south-pacific","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21716,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21715\/revisions\/21716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}