{"id":26724,"date":"2024-04-23T07:12:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T05:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=26724"},"modified":"2024-04-23T07:12:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T05:12:47","slug":"can-we-win-the-battle-between-planet-and-plastic-drastic-changes-are-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/04\/23\/can-we-win-the-battle-between-planet-and-plastic-drastic-changes-are-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Win the Battle of Planet vs. Plastic? Drastic Changes Are Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"layout_mobile__TcFdA\">\n<div class=\"MobileNavigation_main__c5uv9\">\n<nav class=\"MobileNavigation_navbar__STh0x\">\n<div class=\"MobileNavigation_nav_left_side__qc306\">\n<div class=\"MobileNavigation_burger_icon__boTcV\">The exponential increase in plastic production from just two million tons in 1950 to over 450 million tons per year today represents a dire environmental crisis that requires immediate action.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page_main__9aRDE\">\n<section class=\"page_container__juS3_\">\n<div class=\"page_contentWrapper__p_EMN pages_modules_contentWrapper__IYzbk\">\n<div class=\"page_row__08rUY pages_modules_row__V35MW\">\n<div class=\"page_articleColumn__9MuRz\">\n<div class=\"page_content__AwOj6\" data-content-ads-inserted=\"true\" data-slot-rendered-content=\"true\">\n<p data-slot-rendered-content=\"true\">This dramatic escalation in plastic production, with half of all plastic ever produced being produced in the past 15 years alone, suggests a trend that could potentially lead to a doubling of plastic production by 2050. More than a million plastic water bottles are produced every minute and sold worldwide, contributing significantly to the environmental burden. (<em>Andrei Ionescu, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/can-we-win-the-battle-of-planet-vs-plastic-drastic-changes-are-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">earth.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exponential increase in plastic production from just two million tons in 1950 to over 450 million tons per year today represents a dire environmental crisis that requires immediate action. This dramatic escalation in plastic production, with half of all plastic ever produced having been produced in just the last 15 years, suggests a trend that could potentially [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}