{"id":503979,"date":"2018-08-02T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e8aa8c217e19c15b9757e4b8e9b03ee4"},"modified":"2018-08-02T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:40:04","slug":"why-cant-all-plastic-waste-be-recycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=503979","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t all plastic waste be recycled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK produced 11m tonnes of plastic waste in 2017, and recycled around two thirds of it. Or so it seemed. A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) shows that over half of the UK&#8217;s recyclable waste is sent overseas for recycling, but much of it is likely to end up in landfill or the ocean instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK produced 11m tonnes of plastic waste in 2017, and recycled around two thirds of it. Or so it seemed. A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) shows that over half of the UK&#8217;s recyclable waste is sent overseas for recycling, but much of it is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503980,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503979\/revisions\/503980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}