{"id":1122,"date":"2021-07-14T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2025-03-03T19:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:38:27","slug":"the-future-with-microplastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"The Future with Microplastic"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1122\" class=\"elementor elementor-1122\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b57d817 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b57d817\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9562f0f\" data-id=\"9562f0f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81fa674 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"81fa674\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 When boiling water is poured into food containers, it releases countless microplastic particles, grains, and fibers that are invisible to the naked eye. For instance, this occurs when parents pour boiling water into bottles before mixing baby formula or when using plastic electric kettles and other household commodities. Scientists have been studying the potential threats of microplastics to the environment and human health over an extended period. Richard Thompson, a marine ecologist at the University of Plymouth in England, has researched the effect of plastic particles smaller than 5 millimetres in diameter since 2004. He and his team discovered plastic in every environment they examined: in all the oceans, the snow of the Arctic, Antarctic ice, shellfish, table salt, drinking water, and beer. Particles traverse the air and settle back onto the ground in cities, forests, and mountains. In addition to being exposed to drinking water or rainwater, people inhale these particles into their lungs, and plastic can enter the stomach through various foods.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bca44b5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bca44b5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-81824f7\" data-id=\"81824f7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-652f5eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-read-more\" data-id=\"652f5eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"read-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><a class=\"btn btn-color\" href=\"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/?p=1122\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 When boiling water is poured into food containers, it releases countless microplastic particles, grains, and fibers that are invisible to the naked eye. For instance, this occurs when parents pour boiling water into bottles before mixing baby formula or when using plastic electric kettles and other household commodities. Scientists have been studying the <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/?p=1122\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/urbanisness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}