{"id":565470,"date":"2019-01-09T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f1eeeea863e489a02ce6d5bca55ea661"},"modified":"2019-01-09T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:16:05","slug":"the-ocean-garbage-patch-is-tiny-compared-to-our-carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=565470","title":{"rendered":"The ocean garbage patch is tiny compared to our carbon footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, I volunteered in Indonesia on the islands of Simeulue and Bangkaru. During this unique opportunity, I helped to monitor and protect the local green sea turtle population, and I witnessed firsthand the effects of waste on the environment. Despite Bangkaru&#8217;s lack of human inhabitants\u2014aside from the occasional small group of volunteers and two wildlife rangers\u2014nearly all of its shores were bordered with large amounts of trash, primarily plastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, I volunteered in Indonesia on the islands of Simeulue and Bangkaru. During this unique opportunity, I helped to monitor and protect the local green sea turtle population, and I witnessed firsthand the effects of waste on the environment. Despite Bangkaru&#8217;s lack of human inhabitants&mdash;aside from the occasional small group of volunteers and two wildlife rangers&mdash;nearly all of its shores were bordered with large amounts of trash, primarily plastic.<\/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-565470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565470","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=565470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565471,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565470\/revisions\/565471"}],"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=565470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}