{"id":30140,"date":"2023-11-14T11:55:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30140"},"modified":"2024-04-02T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:23:23","slug":"maps-showing-plastic-pollution-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30140","title":{"rendered":"Maps showing plastic pollution sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I maintain that no piece of plastic I have ever been responsible for has ended up in the oceans.  At least since my 20s.  Can&#8217;t be certain for when io was a kid&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also maintain ain&#8217;t no one wants to go back to a plastic free world.  Plastic is just too useful product.  For instance, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30148\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30148\" target=\"_blank\">who wants to go back to bottle return<\/a>? <s>(link to examples at the phillipines coke &amp; egg store webcam.<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Need to focus on the real bad cases.  Looking at you Philippines, India, Brazil, China, and most of the Asia Pacific countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that these maps &amp; charts are not verified by me.  Grabbed from Interent browsing so the usual caveats apply.  But there are certain obvious trends here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/chart-worlds-plastic-polluters-wtf-phillipines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/chart-worlds-plastic-polluters-wtf-phillipines-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"32904\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/chart-worlds-plastic-polluters-wtf-phillipines.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?attachment_id=32904\" class=\"wp-image-32904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/chart-worlds-plastic-polluters-wtf-phillipines-683x1024.jpg 683w, 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href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30137\" target=\"_blank\">1st  level post<\/a>.  also, this is a good example of how a summary post like this is better than doing the search again.  I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I maintain that no piece of plastic I have ever been responsible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[234,1323,163,1840],"class_list":["post-30140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-maps","tag-ocean","tag-plastic","tag-pollution","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32908,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140\/revisions\/32908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}