{"id":5770,"date":"2019-08-05T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/aug\/05\/plastic-poverty-and-paradox-experts-head-to-the-ganges-to-track-waste"},"modified":"2019-08-05T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:00:42","slug":"plastic-poverty-and-paradox-experts-head-to-the-ganges-to-track-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5770","title":{"rendered":"Plastic, poverty and paradox: experts head to the Ganges to track waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s most sacred river is also its most polluted, with plastic a major culprit. Now moves are afoot to monitor the flow of rubbish and assess its link to poverty<\/p>\n<p>Drop a plastic bottle into the Ganges and where does it end up? An all-female team of engineers, explorers and scientists is about to find out by undertaking the first expedition to measure plastic waste in one of the world\u2019s most polluted waterways.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Ganges upstream from where it empties in the Bay of Bengal to its source in the Himalayas, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/projects\/plastic\/\">National Geographic-backed expedition<\/a> aims to better understand how plastic pollution travels from source to sea and provide solutions for reducing the amount that ends up in the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/aug\/05\/plastic-poverty-and-paradox-experts-head-to-the-ganges-to-track-waste\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s most sacred river is also its most polluted, with plastic a major culprit. Now moves are afoot to monitor the flow of rubbish and assess its link to povertyDrop a plastic bottle into the Ganges and where does it end up? An all-female team of en&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"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":[327,65,62,541,266,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-environment","category-india","category-plastic-bags","category-plastics","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/5770","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\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5771,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions\/5771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}