{"id":4323,"date":"2011-05-27T08:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2011-05-27T08:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:13:06","slug":"how-many-of-my-plastic-bottles-are-floating-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/05\/27\/how-many-of-my-plastic-bottles-are-floating-in-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"How many of my plastic bottles are floating in the Pacific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;throwaway&#8221; mentality is not a sustainable method of living. \u00a0The current status of our Pacific garbage patch, which is full plastic, is staggering, and it is growing. \u00a0Chalres Moore gives an excellent <a title=\"plastic ted talk\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2009\/02\/24\/capt_charles_mo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TED talk<\/a>\u00a0about why plastics are harmful and what we should do to\u00a0halt\u00a0the rate of\u00a0plastics\u00a0into the environment. \u00a0In Kure and Midway atolls many Albatross chicks have been dying with plastics, such as cigarette lighters and bottle caps, in their stomachs. \u00a0As consumers we can help to make a transition to using less plastic by doing simple things like buying a stainless steel or glass bottle for holding water or reusing a large glass pasta jar instead of buying bottled water! \u00a0It is also important to help at local beach cleanups as that trash is then stopped from floating into the ocean. \u00a0It&#8217;s amazing how each of our little differences can have large effects \u2013 just look at how little by little we have filled the middle of the Pacific with floating plastic trash!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4324\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/pict0020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4324\" title=\"Deep Champagne\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/pict0020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/pict0020.jpg 2848w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/pict0020-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/pict0020-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/pict0020-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unfortunately throwaway living can be seen directly below the boat moorings at Catalina.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;throwaway&#8221; mentality is not a sustainable method of living. \u00a0The current status of our Pacific garbage patch, which is full plastic, is staggering, and it is growing. \u00a0Chalres Moore gives an excellent TED talk\u00a0about why plastics are harmful and what we should do to\u00a0halt\u00a0the rate of\u00a0plastics\u00a0into the environment. \u00a0In Kure and Midway atolls many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/4323","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\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}