{"id":1596576,"date":"2024-04-08T15:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=637d5a55f42a447e16b88e9e961a7566"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:23:49","slug":"plastic-waste-on-ocean-floors-could-be-100-times-amount-floating-on-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/08\/plastic-waste-on-ocean-floors-could-be-100-times-amount-floating-on-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Waste on Ocean Floors Could Be 100 Times Amount Floating on Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of plastic waste littering the Earth&rsquo;s ocean floors could be up to 100 times the quantity floating on the surface, according to a study published this week. Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) &mdash; an Australian government agency &mdash; and the University of Toronto in Canada found that up to 11 million tons of plastic are polluting the planet&rsquo;...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/plastic-waste-on-ocean-floors-could-be-100-times-amount-floating-on-surface\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/plastic-waste-on-ocean-floors-could-be-100-times-amount-floating-on-surface\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers found that up to 11 million tons of plastic are polluting the planet&#8217;s ocean floors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5605,4,3236,6322,28214],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596577,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596576\/revisions\/1596577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}