{"id":43624,"date":"2022-04-18T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/18\/86000-bottles-of-water-on-the-wall-tonga-struggles-with-post-volcano-waste-problem"},"modified":"2022-04-18T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:00:39","slug":"86000-bottles-of-water-on-the-wall-tonga-struggles-with-post-volcano-waste-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43624","title":{"rendered":"86,000 bottles of water on the wall: Tonga struggles with post-volcano waste problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonga has seen an increase in plastic waste since the tsunami in January, after huge quantities of supplies were brought in for relief efforts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai volcano erupted in Tonga in January, killing four people,<strong> <\/strong>the Pacific nation has received more than 200 shipping containers of aid supplies, including 86,000 bottles of water.<\/p>\n<p>After the HMAS Canberra arrived from Australia, bringing with it two helicopters and more than 417 tonnes of equipment and supplies, the prime minister of Tonga, Siaosi Sovaleni, gave a speech thanking Australia for its help.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/18\/86000-bottles-of-water-on-the-wall-tonga-struggles-with-post-volcano-waste-problem\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonga has seen an increase in plastic waste since the tsunami in January, after huge quantities of supplies were brought in for relief effortsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingSince the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai volcano erupted in To&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2932,"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":[41,65,266,280,2489,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-plastics","category-tonga","category-tonga-volcano","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43624","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\/2932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43625,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43624\/revisions\/43625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}