{"id":1299,"date":"2018-07-05T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efolio.soton.ac.uk\/blog\/discoveroceanography\/?page_id=1299"},"modified":"2019-05-29T13:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T12:52:59","slug":"marine-plastic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoveroceanography\/marine-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year 8\u00a0<strong>millio<\/strong><strong>n<\/strong> tonnes of plastic is deposited into the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips71'>Ocean<\/span> each year, as we as humans are expected to produce and use 400 million tonnes of plastic each year by 2025. This will mean that even more plastic in the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips71'>Ocean<\/span> each year. This plastic is then eaten by animals in the sea, traps them as they swim, or pollutes their habitats. If this continues, the oceans will slowly have less and less life as more animals can no longer survive in their natural habitats. Take the quiz below to test your knowledge about what humans need to do\u00a0<strong>now<\/strong> to save our oceans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-27\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"27\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips0','The variable that is changed or controlled in a scientific experiment to test the effects on\u00a0the dependent variable.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips53','The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips71','A very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year 8\u00a0million tonnes of plastic is deposited into the Ocean each year, as we as humans are expected to produce and use 400 million tonnes of plastic each year by 2025. This will mean that even more plastic in the Ocean each year. This plastic is then eaten by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3738,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1299","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoveroceanography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoveroceanography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoveroceanography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoveroceanography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoveroceanography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoveroceanography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoveroceanography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1299\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoveroceanography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}