{"id":22874,"date":"2023-01-15T01:52:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/15\/the-man-who-first-discovered-plastic-in-the-ocean\/"},"modified":"2023-01-15T01:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T01:52:19","slug":"the-man-who-first-discovered-plastic-in-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=22874","title":{"rendered":"The man who first discovered plastic in the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In 1971, marine biologist Edward Carpenter made a shocking discovery, finding small bits of plastics floating thousands of miles off the east coast of America, in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">More than 50 years later he tells the story of how he had to fight hard to get the scientific world to take notice of his discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Listen to more from Edward Carpenter on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3ct3bzx\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History: History as told by the people who were there.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-64250382?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In 1971, marine biologist Edward Carpenter made a shocking discovery, finding small bits of plastics floating thousands of miles off the east coast of America, in the Atlantic Ocean. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}