{"id":3754,"date":"2019-09-21T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2023-06-12T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:21:36","slug":"curbing-our-plastic-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/curbing-our-plastic-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Curbing Our Plastic Problem (Bloomberg)"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_column_text]Plastic is both a super product and an ecological nightmare. It&#8217;s cheap, durable and won&#8217;t rot, which means it&#8217;s great for shopping bags and fast food, but also means it sticks around for hundreds of years. (Source: Bloomberg)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2019-09-30\/curing-our-plastic-problem-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the video on Bloomberg ( click here )<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_column_text]Plastic is both a super product and an ecological nightmare&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-media"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plasticenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}