{"id":898,"date":"2024-04-09T19:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=898"},"modified":"2024-04-09T19:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:49:18","slug":"a-ray-of-hope-in-the-face-of-global-plastic-pollution-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/a-ray-of-hope-in-the-face-of-global-plastic-pollution-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ray of Hope In the Face of Global Plastic Pollution Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic pollution is being discovered virtually everywhere, from the poles to the equator, from the bottoms of our oceans to near the top of Mount Everest, from the clouds to mothers\u2019 milk.\u00a0 The problem is\u00a0 worsening exponentially with every passing year, and the results are devastating.\u00a0 Plastic pollution causes cancer, alters the amount of oxygen in our oceans, melts snow and ice, interferes with reproduction, and much, much more.\u00a0 But there is hope.\u00a0 Since 2020, delegates from 175 nations have been working on the world\u2019s first legally binding plastics pollution treaty, and the self-imposed deadline for producing the final draft is December.\u00a0 In this article, marine scientist and plastics pollution expert Imogen Napper discusses the problems and the hope for the effort\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inching toward a global treaty on plastic pollution<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/knowablemagazine.org\/content\/article\/food-environment\/2024\/imogen-napper-interview-global-treaty-plastic-pollution\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/knowablemagazine.org\/content\/article\/food-environment\/2024\/imogen-napper-interview-global-treaty-plastic-pollution&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712592283497000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2uju33bvVurzzn0AmqjMcQ\">https:\/\/knowablemagazine.org\/content\/article\/food-environment\/2024\/imogen-napper-interview-global-treaty-plastic-pollution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic pollution is being discovered virtually everywhere, from the poles to the equator, from the bottoms of our oceans to near the top of Mount Everest, from the clouds to mothers\u2019 milk.\u00a0 The problem is\u00a0 worsening exponentially with every passing year, and the results are devastating.\u00a0 Plastic pollution causes cancer, alters the amount of oxygen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/a-ray-of-hope-in-the-face-of-global-plastic-pollution-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;A Ray of Hope In the Face of Global Plastic Pollution Problem&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}