{"id":25526,"date":"2019-11-27T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25526"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:39:14","slug":"it-is-raining-plastic-microplastics-found-in-colorado-rainwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25526","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is raining plastic&#8217;: Microplastics found in Colorado rainwater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Microplastics_In_CO_Rainwater.jpg\" alt=\"'It is raining plastic': Microplastics found in Colorado rainwater\" class=\"wp-image-25527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Microplastics_In_CO_Rainwater.jpg 777w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Microplastics_In_CO_Rainwater-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Microplastics_In_CO_Rainwater-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About 90 percent of rainwater samples collected from the Denver-Boulder area of Colorado contained microplastics. Microplastics have invaded nearly every part of the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are not filtering your water you are doing yourself a grave disservice! Check out the UltraStream from Alkaway.com.au then call me for a special price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/surprising-science\/microplastics-rainwater\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/surprising-science\/microplastics-rainwater<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 90 percent of rainwater samples collected from the Denver-Boulder area of Colorado contained microplastics. Microplastics have invaded nearly every part of the environment. If you are not filtering your water you are doing yourself a grave disservice! Check out the UltraStream from Alkaway.com.au then call me for a special price. https:\/\/bigthink.com\/surprising-science\/microplastics-rainwater<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25526","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\/25526","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=25526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25528,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25526\/revisions\/25528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}