{"id":414,"date":"2022-01-04T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:02:00","slug":"plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>1907<\/strong>: Plastic was invented<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1933<\/strong>: Polyethylene was created (shopping bags, food packaging, bottles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1970<\/strong>: Annual plastic production is 35m tonnes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2013<\/strong>: 215k tonnes of plastic is floating in the ocean (excludes plastics at depth). One third of this has accumulated to form &#8216;The Great Pacific Garbage Patch&#8217; &#8211; 3x the area of Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong>: Annual plastic production is 381m tonnes (7bn cumulatively, 1 tonne per human)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong>: 344 species found to be affected by plastic entanglement, 233 species for ingestion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2050<\/strong>: 6m pieces of plastic estimated to be floating in the ocean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plastics helped humanity flourish (food preservation, safety equipment, computers, construction) but we&#8217;ve not been accountable for the negative externalities it presented. It&#8217;s a waste management problem. For this particular problem, effective government regulation is better than leaving it to the free market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/plastic-pollution\" target=\"_blank\">Our World in Data<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1907: Plastic was invented 1933: Polyethylene was created (shopping bags, food packaging, bottles) 1970: Annual plastic production is 35m tonnes 2013: 215k tonnes of plastic is floating in the ocean (excludes plastics at depth). One third of this has accumulated to form &#8216;The Great Pacific Garbage Patch&#8217; &#8211; 3x the area of Spain 2015: Annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}