{"id":2037,"date":"2010-06-29T07:47:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2011-11-12T23:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T04:43:38","slug":"the-pacific-garbage-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2010\/the-pacific-garbage-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pacific Garbage Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2048\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2010\/the-pacific-garbage-patch\/garbage-patch-2\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2048\" title=\"garbage-patch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garbage-patch1-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"garbage\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garbage-patch1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garbage-patch1-515x280.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garbage-patch1.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wowza &#8212; talk about taking on a project! Electrolux is stepping out of the box and into the deep blue sea by backing a project that would pull plastics from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/planetgreen.discovery.com\/travel-outdoors\/the-pacific-garbage-patch-explained.html\" target=\"_self\">Great Pacific Garbage Patch <\/a>(you&#8217;ve gotta see this)\u00a0and use them for home appliances like vacuum cleaners. TreeHugger asked the questions of whether this is really sustainable considering the amount of work going into getting the plastic. What are your thoughts? Get the whole story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/06\/pacific-garbage-patch-plastic-to-be-recycled-into-vacuum-cleaners.php\" target=\"_self\">TreeHugger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning ocean trash into household treasures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}