{"id":7628,"date":"2019-06-14T21:53:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T01:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:18:56","slug":"plastics-pick-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/06\/plastics-pick-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastics pick-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People are starting to pay increasing attention to the dangers of plastic waste in the environment. I think children and teens are ahead of many adults in their awareness of the dangers of plastic waste &#8212; a six year old of my acquaintance asked for her sixth birthday party to be a plastics clean up on the beach. Now admittedly most of the children and teens that I know are from Unitarian Universalist families, so perhaps they are slightly more aware of plastic waste; but I think while many adults have gotten locked into a narrow focus on stopping further global warming, the children and teens I know seem more aware of the many interlocking aspects of looming global environmental disaster: global warming, plastic waste, toxics in the environment, habitat destruction, etc. And the kids I know quickly make the connection between all these problems and human overpopulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the last day of our church&#8217;s Ecojustice Camp, we did a clean-up of the campsite where we spent the last night of camp. This was a well-maintained and relatively clean campsite, yet we found quite a bit of plastic waste:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Camp-Day-Five-B-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Camp-Day-Five-B.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Camp-Day-Five-B-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Camp-Day-Five-B-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The campers and counselors found on the order of 200 pieces of plastic waste, along with some degradable trash such as paper and metal. That&#8217;s a lot of plastic&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are starting to pay increasing attention to the dangers of plastic waste in the environment. I think children and teens are ahead of many adults in their awareness of the dangers of plastic waste &#8212; a six year old of my acquaintance asked for her sixth birthday party to be a plastics clean up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/06\/plastics-pick-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plastics pick-up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[839],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-toxication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}