{"id":2131,"date":"2024-12-06T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2024-11-23T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T19:20:39","slug":"can-we-finally-be-rid-of-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-we-finally-be-rid-of-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Finally be Rid of the &#8216;Great Pacific Garbage Patch&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New computer models suggest that the notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240910232906\/https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-garbage-patch-plastic-20180322-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/u><\/a>, a gargantuan mass of plastic and other garbage twice the size of Texas that is floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, could be cleaned up in five years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240910171319\/https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-09-06\/great-pacific-garbage-patch-can-be-eliminated-in-10-years-cleanup-organization-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240910171319\/https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-09-06\/great-pacific-garbage-patch-can-be-eliminated-in-10-years-cleanup-organization-says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781583335017\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New computer models suggest that the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a gargantuan mass of plastic and other garbage twice the size of Texas that is floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, could be cleaned up in five years. Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-we-finally-be-rid-of-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Can We Finally be Rid of the &#8216;Great Pacific Garbage Patch&#8217;?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}