{"id":3723,"date":"2019-12-25T04:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T04:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2019-12-25T04:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T04:32:28","slug":"amsterdam-unveils-canal-bubble-barrier-to-keep-plastic-out-of-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/12\/25\/amsterdam-unveils-canal-bubble-barrier-to-keep-plastic-out-of-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam unveils canal bubble barrier to keep plastic out of sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/07\/bubble-barrier-launched-to-keep-plastics-out-of-oceans\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian &#8211; Nov 7 2019,<\/a>, a novel method of keeping plastics from entering the ocean is discussed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Dutch start-up, the Amsterdam municipality and the regional water board launched the Great Bubble Barrier, a simple device that channels rubbish \u2013 especially small pieces of plastic \u2013 to the side of the Westerdok canal where it can be retrieved. Tests have shown it can divert more than 80% of flotsam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8c74057c553be94d91b5e7dc721cf022f4a94dc9\/0_293_5616_3370\/master\/5616.jpg?width=620&#038;quality=45&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=max&#038;dpr=2&#038;s=f701b80f2e9f3993cdd70a6234cb6a17\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in the The Guardian &#8211; Nov 7 2019,, a novel method of keeping plastics from entering the ocean is discussed. A Dutch start-up, the Amsterdam municipality and the regional water board launched the Great Bubble Barrier, a simple device that channels rubbish \u2013 especially small pieces of plastic \u2013 to the side &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/12\/25\/amsterdam-unveils-canal-bubble-barrier-to-keep-plastic-out-of-sea\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,15,16,17],"tags":[2259,2261,2262,2260,1465,2258],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-3723","6":"format-standard","7":"category-climate-change","8":"category-ethical-and-green-living","9":"category-science","10":"category-sea-stories","11":"category-thinking-about","12":"post_tag-amsterdam","13":"post_tag-ecology","14":"post_tag-green-living","15":"post_tag-plastic","16":"post_tag-rubbish","17":"post_tag-the-great-bubble-barrier"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}