{"id":7301,"date":"2018-08-03T06:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7301"},"modified":"2018-08-03T06:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:22:48","slug":"plastic-pollution-how-one-woman-found-a-new-source-of-warming-gases-hidden-in-waste-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7301","title":{"rendered":"Plastic pollution: How one woman found a new source of warming gases hidden in waste -BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Royer found that the most widely-used plastic, the stuff used to make shopping bags, is the one that produces the greatest amount of these warming gases.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the study, after 212 days in the sun, this plastic emitted 176 times more methane than at the start of the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0Plastic pollution: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-45043989\">How one woman found a new source of warming gases hidden in waste &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Royer found that the most widely-used plastic, the stuff used to make shopping bags, is the one that produces the greatest amount of these warming gases. At the end of the study, after 212 days in the sun, this plastic emitted 176 times more methane than at the start of the experiment. Source:\u00c2\u00a0Plastic pollution: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7302,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}