{"id":8078,"date":"2025-02-01T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2025-02-14T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:01:16","slug":"climate-change-waste-9-a-childrens-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/climate-change-waste-9-a-childrens-room\/","title":{"rendered":"climate change &#8211; waste &#8211; 9 &#8211; a childrens room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8211; A children&#8217;s room was cleared out here &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The recycling system means processing recyclable materials. Does that mean we can continue to produce waste unchecked? No, we can&#8217;t. The New York Times reports the 14th of February 2025:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nowhere does today\u2019s waste trade reach more boggling dimensions than with plastic. The time scales alone are dizzying. Bottles or takeaway cartons that you own for moments embark on arduous, monthslong, carbon-spewing journeys from one end of Earth to another. Upon arrival in villages in Vietnam or the Philippines, for example, some of these objects get chemically reduced \u2014 an energy-intensive task that unleashes innumerable toxins and microplastics into local ecosystems. The process\u2019s ability to produce new plastic is at best dubious, but the environmental and health cost is cataclysmic. Plastic waste in the developing world \u2014 clogging waterways, exacerbating air pollution, infiltrating human brain tissue \u2014 is now linked to the death of hundreds of thousands every year.&#8221; Alexander Clapp<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-p6m5rf\">\n<div class=\"byline-container css-t91cuf epjyd6m2\">\n<div class=\"css-ehpuw4 epjyd6m1\">\n<p class=\"css-1tx0lhj e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">By <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Alexander Clapp<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1gqes1i epjyd6m0\">\n<div id=\"enhanced-byline\" class=\"css-8atqhb\">\n<p class=\"css-1npznau e1wtpvyy0\">Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of \u201cWaste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,\u201d from which this essay is adapted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; A children&#8217;s room was cleared out here &#8211; The recycling system means processing recyclable materials. Does that mean we can continue to produce waste unchecked? No, we can&#8217;t. The New York Times reports the 14th of February 2025: &#8220;Nowhere does today\u2019s waste trade reach more boggling dimensions than with plastic. The time scales alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-waste"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9288,"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions\/9288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate-change-we-can-do-something.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}