{"id":3858,"date":"2016-01-28T01:36:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T01:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2016-01-28T01:51:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T01:51:55","slug":"help-resolve-the-plastic-bottle-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/?p=3858","title":{"rendered":"Help Resolve the Plastic Bottle Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/floating-plastic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/floating-plastic-300x187.png\" alt=\"floating-plastic\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/floating-plastic-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/floating-plastic-450x281.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/floating-plastic.png 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHow you can help prevent garbage from floating in the ocean<\/h3>\n<p>Here at The Water Plant we truly believe we together can prevent more &#8220;Plastic Islands&#8221; in the pacific ocean. There are so many things you can do to prevent further environmental destruction from plastics that end up in our ocean ecosystems. These important steps are all of our responsibility:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pick up trash whenever you see it and properly dispose of it.<\/li>\n<li>When putting your recycling bins and trash cans to the curb, be sure that you secure your waste so that it doesn\u2019t blow away.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce the amount of plastic you use in your life.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that you recycle as much plastic as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Participate in your local beach or stream clean-up projects to collect trash from wild spaces.\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/en\/campaigns\/oceans\/pollution\/trash-vortex\/\">The Trash Votex<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/plasticisland1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3862\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/plasticisland1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"plasticisland1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/plasticisland1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/plasticisland1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/plasticisland1-1500x844.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/plasticisland1-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/plasticisland1-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/plasticisland1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How you can help prevent garbage from floating in the ocean Here at The Water Plant we truly believe we together can prevent more &#8220;Plastic Islands&#8221; in the pacific ocean. There are so many things you can do to prevent further environmental destruction from plastics that end up in our ocean ecosystems. These important steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,175,177,174,117,176],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bpa-free","tag-eco-friendly","tag-live","tag-plasitc-bottles","tag-recycle","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewaterplant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}