{"id":9877,"date":"2026-02-17T03:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/9877\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T03:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:16:15","slug":"tackling-plastic-pollution-through-innovation-and-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/9877\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling Plastic Pollution Through Innovation and Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the 1950s, researchers estimate humanity has created 9.2 billion tons2, with more than 7 billion tons becoming waste. Plastic isn\u2019t just a waste problem &#8211; it\u2019s a climate problem. The production of plastic accounted for more than 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 20203.\u00a0This year, the theme of World Environment Day &#8211; ending plastic pollution is especially urgent as the observance comes just two months before countries resume negotiations on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/inc-plastic-pollution\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">global treaty to eliminate plastic waste<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Since the 1950s, researchers estimate humanity has created 9.2 billion tons2, with more than 7 billion tons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[232,2056],"class_list":{"0":"post-9877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-abb","8":"tag-abb","9":"tag-motion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}