{"id":22,"date":"2019-12-10T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2020-04-21T00:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:39:35","slug":"group-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/group-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-772 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-20-at-7.32.10-PM-300x111.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-20-at-7.32.10-PM-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-20-at-7.32.10-PM-1024x380.png 1024w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-20-at-7.32.10-PM-768x285.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-20-at-7.32.10-PM-1536x570.png 1536w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-20-at-7.32.10-PM.png 1676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Fast Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8 million tons enter our oceans each year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Land Based (litter and debris) &amp; Ocean Based (fishing debris, nets)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">51 trillion particles of plastic in our oceans<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">40% of marine mammals and seabirds are affected by plastic ingestion each year, killing over 1,000,000 seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The average person is ingesting 5 grams of plastic per week (credit card size)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the current pace, by 2050, plastic will outweigh all fish in our oceans<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>A Quick Video To Give You Some Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UN #CleanSeas campaign aims to combat marine plastic litter\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QTaADoOKqQY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fast Facts: 8 million tons enter our oceans each year Land Based (litter and debris) &amp; Ocean Based (fishing debris, nets) 51 trillion particles of plastic in our oceans 40% of marine mammals and seabirds are affected by plastic ingestion each year, killing over 1,000,000 seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals The average person is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/group-1\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}