{"id":12986,"date":"2018-08-28T05:26:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T05:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12986"},"modified":"2018-08-28T05:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T05:26:35","slug":"how-much-plastic-is-in-our-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12986","title":{"rendered":"How much plastic is in our oceans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"70.7709090909\">\n<p>The world is still producing plastic, even though it is widely recognised to be a big environmental problem.<\/p>\n<p>It is still far cheaper to produce single-use items than to recycle, and the resulting pollution is having an impact on countries and oceans across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year a huge mass of that ocean plastic waste <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajenglish\/status\/1021583245941518336\">washed ashore on a beach<\/a> in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>At the current rate, by 2050, the oceans will contain more plastic than fish, according to the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Gabriel Elizondo reports from New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is still producing plastic, even though it is widely recognised to be a big environmental problem. It is still far cheaper to produce single-use items than to recycle, and the resulting pollution is having an impact on countries and oceans across the world. Earlier this year a huge mass of that ocean plastic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}