{"id":536314,"date":"2018-10-18T10:20:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6d38e27545b25fe973b57dd0d56cb286"},"modified":"2018-10-18T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:20:02","slug":"trying-not-to-fluff-it-dealing-with-plastic-microfibres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=536314","title":{"rendered":"Trying not to fluff it: Dealing with plastic microfibres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some new socks this week. So what, you might ask. My new socks are lovely and warm and very fluffy \u2013 just right for autumn. But, when I wore them, they moulted their fluff all over my feet, and if I&#8217;m not careful they will also lose fluff into my washing machine. Again, you may ask \u2013 so what? Well, all of this soft fluff isn&#8217;t actually as &#8220;soft and fluffy&#8221; as you might imagine; in fact the fluff from my new polyester socks is made of lots of tiny plastic fibres \u2013 and these so-called &#8220;microfibres&#8221; are a newly recognised source of marine pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some new socks this week. So what, you might ask. My new socks are lovely and warm and very fluffy &ndash; just right for autumn. But, when I wore them, they moulted their fluff all over my feet, and if I&#8217;m not careful they will also lose fluff into my washing machine. Again, you may ask &ndash; so what? Well, all of this soft fluff isn&#8217;t actually as &#8220;soft and fluffy&#8221; as you might imagine; in fact the fluff from my new polyester socks is made of lots of tiny plastic fibres &ndash; and these so-called &#8220;microfibres&#8221; are a newly recognised source of marine pollution.<\/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-536314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536314","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=536314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536315,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536314\/revisions\/536315"}],"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=536314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}