{"id":11723,"date":"2023-01-17T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/the-man-who-first-discovered-plastic-in-the-ocean\/"},"modified":"2023-01-17T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T12:04:10","slug":"the-man-who-first-discovered-plastic-in-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/the-man-who-first-discovered-plastic-in-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who first discovered plastic in the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In 1971, marine biologist Edward Carpenter made a shocking discovery, finding small bits of plastics floating thousands of miles off the east coast of America, in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">More than 50 years later he tells the story of how he had to fight hard to get the scientific world to take notice of his discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Listen to more from Edward Carpenter on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3ct3bzx\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History: History as told by the people who were there.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-64250382?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971, marine biologist Edward Carpenter made a shocking discovery, finding small bits of plastics floating thousands of miles off the east coast of America, in the Atlantic Ocean. More than 50 years later he tells the story of how he had to fight hard to get the scientific world to take notice of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[4097,417,6757,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11725,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723\/revisions\/11725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}