{"id":98,"date":"2016-05-14T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2016-05-14T20:27:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T19:27:52","slug":"more-plastic-gets-into-the-water-and-our-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/more-plastic-gets-into-the-water-and-our-food\/","title":{"rendered":"More plastic gets into the water; and our food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/58137998_debris_ap.jpg\" alt=\"_58137998_debris_ap\" width=\"304\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/58137998_debris_ap.jpg 304w, https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/58137998_debris_ap-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers traced the \u201cmicroplastic\u201d back to synthetic clothes, which released up to 1,900 tiny fibres per garment every time they were washed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier research showed plastic smaller than 1mm were being eaten by animals and getting into the food chain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-16709045?utoken=406459.66941.9431e8060632511f99a673f87caff099\">Read the entire article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gobluetoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}