{"id":9095,"date":"2025-12-14T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/life-in-plastic-its-not-fantastic-unraveling-the-causes-part-1\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:15:29","slug":"life-in-plastic-its-not-fantastic-unraveling-the-causes-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/life-in-plastic-its-not-fantastic-unraveling-the-causes-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in plastic, it\u2019s not fantastic: Unraveling the causes (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sheet after sheet amounting to more than 88 pounds of plastic was pulled out of a dead whale\u2019s intestines in the Philippines. Clogged-up drainage systems exacerbated the impacts of deadly floods in Bangladesh during the devastating monsoon seasons. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once beautiful lakes and rivers in India and China are now forever tainted by the irresponsible disposal of men. It is irrefutable that the issue of plastic waste has far-reaching consequences. Yet, this exact problem has been tactfully evaded for decades by governments and entrepreneurs alike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2017, the United Nations deemed that&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/e27.co\/life-in-plastic-its-not-fantastic-unraveling-the-causes-part-1-20230611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheet after sheet amounting to more than 88 pounds of plastic was pulled out of a dead whale\u2019s intestines in the Philippines.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}