{"id":26647,"date":"2025-04-17T05:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26647\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:02:14","slug":"dont-overlook-the-many-benefits-of-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26647\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t overlook the many benefits of plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Few people are more synonymous with wonder at the natural world than Sir David Attenborough, a nonagenarian television presenter. In recent years, Sir David has been campaigning fervently for an end to the plastic that his film crews find scattered across the planet. \u201cThe plastic in our oceans ought never to have got there in the first place,\u201d he said in one interview. \u201cMuch of it perhaps ought not to have even been manufactured at all.\u201d The first statement is reasonable, but the second is not\u2014for it disregards the extraordinary benefits that plastics, and the industry which produces them, have provided both to humans and to the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few people are more synonymous with wonder at the natural world than Sir David Attenborough, a nonagenarian television&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,695,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-26647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-leaders","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114351554107288488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}