{"id":20952,"date":"2020-11-09T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/?p=20952"},"modified":"2020-11-12T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T02:00:24","slug":"how-4ocean-made-recycling-economically-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2020\/11\/09\/how-4ocean-made-recycling-economically-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"How 4Ocean Made Recycling Economically Sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-20952\"  class=\"panel-layout\"><div id=\"pg-20952-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\"><div id=\"pgc-20952-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"><div id=\"panel-20952-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\"><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/kali-prescott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kali Prescott<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLML Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><i>An estimated 5.25 trillion tons of plastic is currently adrift in the ocean having extensive deleterious effects on wildlife (Erikson et al., 2014).\u00a0<\/i>Reduce, reuse, recycle has been the battle cry of environmentalists and ocean clean up organizations since the public first realized the severity of marine plastic pollution. For decades plastic producing companies have touted recycling as the solution to plastic pollution in the ocean while simultaneously shirking responsibility\u2014claiming that recycling \u201cis not economically viable\u201d. Continuing to produce virgin plastic unfortunately remains cheaper than producing products from recycled materials even with technological developments.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2020\/11\/09\/how-4ocean-made-recycling-economically-sustainable\/#more-20952\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kali Prescott, MLML Vertebrate Ecology Lab An estimated 5.25 trillion tons of plastic is currently adrift in the ocean having extensive deleterious effects on wildlife (Erikson et al., 2014).\u00a0Reduce, reuse, recycle has been the battle cry of environmentalists and ocean clean up organizations since the public first realized the severity of marine plastic pollution. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":20954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-20952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-vertebrate-ecology-lab"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20952"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20988,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions\/20988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}