{"id":23846,"date":"2019-07-25T23:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23846"},"modified":"2019-09-18T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:10:05","slug":"humans-are-eating-and-drinking-enough-plastic-to-make-a-credit-card-every-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23846","title":{"rendered":"Humans are eating and drinking enough plastic to make a credit card every week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dietary_Plastic.jpg\" alt=\"We're Eating Plastic\" class=\"wp-image-23847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dietary_Plastic.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dietary_Plastic-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study has found that the global average of microplastic ingestion could be as high as five grams a week per person, which is the equivalent of eating a teaspoon of plastic \u2014 or a credit card \u2014 every week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-06-12\/microplastic-study-reveals-global-ingestion-rates\/11199498\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-06-12\/microplastic-study-reveals-global-ingestion-rates\/11199498<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has found that the global average of microplastic ingestion could be as high as five grams a week per person, which is the equivalent of eating a teaspoon of plastic \u2014 or a credit card \u2014 every week. https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-06-12\/microplastic-study-reveals-global-ingestion-rates\/11199498<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24025,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846\/revisions\/24025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}