{"id":742187,"date":"2022-11-30T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=742187"},"modified":"2022-11-30T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:29:44","slug":"waste-pickers-risk-their-lives-to-stop-plastic-pollution-now-they-could-help-shape-global-recycling-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=742187","title":{"rendered":"Waste pickers risk their lives to stop plastic pollution\u2014now they could help shape global recycling policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, waste pickers are responsible for collecting and recovering\u2014from homes, businesses and landfills\u2014up to 60% of all plastics which are then recycled. These workers do more than any other people to prevent plastic contaminating the environment, yet their work is rarely valued and they struggle to earn a decent living.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-11-pickers-plastic-pollutionnow-global-recycling.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Waste pickers risk their lives to stop plastic pollution\u2014now they could help shape global recycling policies<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, waste pickers are responsible for collecting and recovering\u2014from homes, businesses and landfills\u2014up to 60% of all plastics which are then recycled. These workers do more than any other people&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742187","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742187\/revisions"}],"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=742187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}