{"id":759006,"date":"2023-06-27T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=759006"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:00:01","slug":"plastic-pollution-campaigners-around-the-world-are-using-the-courts-to-clean-up-but-manufacturers-are-fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=759006","title":{"rendered":"Plastic pollution: Campaigners around the world are using the courts to clean up\u2014but manufacturers are fighting back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic pollution has become such major problem that it&#8217;s threatening our human rights. That&#8217;s the view of two UN special rapporteurs (human rights advisers) who recently issued a joint statement, warning against the &#8220;overwhelming toxic tidal wave&#8221; of plastic endangering us and the environment &#8220;in a myriad of ways over its life cycle.&#8221; They called for urgent action on dealing with this global crisis.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-06-plastic-pollution-campaigners-world-courts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plastic pollution: Campaigners around the world are using the courts to clean up\u2014but manufacturers are fighting back<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic pollution has become such major problem that it&#8217;s threatening our human rights. That&#8217;s the view of two UN special rapporteurs (human rights advisers) who recently issued a joint statement,&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-759006","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\/759006","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=759006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759006\/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=759006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}