{"id":23277,"date":"2023-08-28T20:39:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T00:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=23277"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:49:05","slug":"how-proactive-should-one-be-in-avoiding-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/08\/28\/how-proactive-should-one-be-in-avoiding-microplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"How proactive should one be in avoiding microplastics?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aw082823-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aw082823-05.jpg\" alt=\"How proactive should one be in avoiding microplastics?\" class=\"wp-image-23274\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How proactive should one be in avoiding microplastics?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingesting them or generating them? The verdict is still out on the level of risk to human health. Not creating more of them would be a good goal. Key sources are synthetic textiles, car tires, and city dust according to a study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (bit.ly\/IUCNPlasticSources)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingesting them or generating them? The verdict is still out on the level of risk to human health. Not creating more of them would be a good goal. Key sources are synthetic textiles, car tires, and city dust according to a study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (bit.ly\/IUCNPlasticSources)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23296,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23277\/revisions\/23296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}