{"id":563438,"date":"2019-01-03T11:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=54277b547717eb7a242ba892d172b5dd"},"modified":"2019-01-03T11:26:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:26:46","slug":"microplastics-and-plastic-additives-discovered-in-ascidians-all-along-israels-coastline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=563438","title":{"rendered":"Microplastics and plastic additives discovered in ascidians all along Israel&#8217;s coastline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Tel Aviv University study finds that microplastics\u2014tiny pieces of plastic ingested by aquatic life\u2014are present in solitary ascidians all along the Israeli coastline. Ascidians are sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders. The research also confirmed the presence of plastic additives, i.e. &#8220;plasticizers,&#8221; in ascidians. Plasticizers are substances added to plastics to increase their flexibility, transparency, durability and longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Tel Aviv University study finds that microplastics&mdash;tiny pieces of plastic ingested by aquatic life&mdash;are present in solitary ascidians all along the Israeli coastline. Ascidians are sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders. The research also confirmed the presence of plastic additives, i.e. &#8220;plasticizers,&#8221; in ascidians. Plasticizers are substances added to plastics to increase their flexibility, transparency, durability and longevity.<\/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-563438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563438","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=563438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563439,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563438\/revisions\/563439"}],"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=563438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}