{"id":575972,"date":"2019-02-06T11:44:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8683121b529d84e06b5b592aebd52786"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:44:20","slug":"do-microplastics-harm-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=575972","title":{"rendered":"Do microplastics harm humans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 8 million metric tons of plastic waste winds up in the oceans every year\u2014bottles, bags and doo-dads that eventually break down into tiny pieces, called microplastics. These inedible bits have now been found in human fecal samples, but do microplastics cause harm to people? That&#8217;s the question many researchers are pondering, according to an article in Chemical &#038; Engineering News (C&#038;EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 8 million metric tons of plastic waste winds up in the oceans every year&mdash;bottles, bags and doo-dads that eventually break down into tiny pieces, called microplastics. These inedible bits have now been found in human fecal samples, but do microplastics cause harm to people? That&#8217;s the question many researchers are pondering, according to an article in Chemical &amp; Engineering News (C&amp;EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.<\/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-575972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575972","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=575972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575973,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575972\/revisions\/575973"}],"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=575972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}