{"id":5175,"date":"2019-07-29T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2020-07-27T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T12:19:02","slug":"great-pacific-garbage-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/great-pacific-garbage-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Pacific Garbage Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"size-large alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/media.nationalgeographic.org\/assets\/photos\/0f4\/a7d\/0f4a7db2-aeed-4715-a554-b2f9c146cfdc_r160x120.jpg?d510eed90731efd86735201d7c98f92870025fdf\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/>&#8220;&#8230;For many people, the idea of a \u201cgarbage patch\u201d\u00a0conjures up images of an\u00a0island\u00a0of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called\u00a0microplastics. Microplastics can\u2019t always be seen by the naked eye. Even\u00a0satellite imagery\u00a0doesn\u2019t show a giant patch of garbage. The microplastics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can simply make the water look like a cloudy soup. This soup is intermixed with larger items, such as fishing gear and shoes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div>Read the entire article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/encyclopedia\/great-pacific-garbage-patch\/\">National Geographic<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;For many people, the idea of a \u201cgarbage patch\u201d\u00a0conjures up images of an\u00a0island\u00a0of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called\u00a0microplastics. Microplastics can\u2019t always be seen by the naked eye. Even\u00a0satellite imagery\u00a0doesn\u2019t show a giant patch of garbage. The microplastics of the Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}