{"id":2458,"date":"2013-09-15T07:06:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2016-03-27T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T07:50:53","slug":"cleaning-up-the-gyres-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/cleaning-up-the-gyres-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Up the Gyres in the Plastic Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IF THE INCREDIBLE drive and tenacity of <a href=\"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/the-rion-page-story-one-amazing-young-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Page<\/a> isn&#8217;t enough to restore your hope in humanity, consider the beyond-his-years ambition of teenage inventor, Boyan Slat.<\/p>\n<p>Boyan says the oceans can be cleared of plastic waste in five years &#8212; if we come together to fix the vast pollution problem WE created. And he has formed the Ocean Cleanup Foundation to get the work done.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ROW9F-c0kIQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my favorite quotes from Boyan&#8217;s presentation at TEDxDelft:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once there was a stone age, a bronze age, and now we are in the middle of the plastic age<\/li>\n<li>Use your list of concerns as challenges<\/li>\n<li>Of course, we didn&#8217;t quit there<\/li>\n<li>I believe the great Pacific garbage patch can clean itself in five years.<\/li>\n<li>If we want to do something different, shouldn&#8217;t we also have to think differently?<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s use our enemy to our advantage<\/li>\n<li>In other words; it&#8217;s possible<\/li>\n<li>If we realize change is more important than money, money will come<\/li>\n<li>We made this mess, so don&#8217;t tell me we can&#8217;t clean it up together<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good work, Boyan. You&#8217;re definitely a hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF THE INCREDIBLE drive and tenacity of Ryan Page isn&#8217;t enough to restore your hope in humanity, consider the beyond-his-years ambition of teenage inventor, Boyan Slat. Boyan says the oceans can be cleared of plastic waste in five years &#8212; if we come together to fix the vast pollution problem WE created. And he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[149,227,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}