{"id":32529,"date":"2021-04-30T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=32529"},"modified":"2021-04-30T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:01:29","slug":"do-you-know-where-plastic-waste-in-the-oceans-is-coming-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=32529","title":{"rendered":"Do you know where plastic waste in the oceans is coming from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Around 1,000 of the world\u2019s rivers are the source of 80% of the global ocean plastic pollution, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The research was carried out by The Ocean Cleanup, who are developing technology to remove plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean, as well as from rivers themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC\u2019s Science Editor David Shukman spoke to their CEO Boyan Slat about the findings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-56937300\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1,000 of the world\u2019s rivers are the source of 80% of the global ocean plastic pollution, according to a new study. The research was carried out by The Ocean Cleanup, who are developing technology to remove plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean, as well as from rivers themselves. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p09gbtlg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}