{"id":121730,"date":"2018-06-05T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=121730"},"modified":"2019-03-13T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:16:12","slug":"how-plastic-affects-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/how-plastic-affects-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Plastic Straw Has More of an Impact Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>SUMMER 2018 BOX PARTNER<\/h6>\n<p>A plastic straw has a lot more impact than you\u2019d think. Imagine a graceful sea otter. It\u2019s swimming in the ocean and it mistakes a plastic straw for a delicious meal. The next thing you know, the sea otter accidentally ingests the plastic and has a 50 percent chance of survival.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a serious problem for the ocean, the wildlife, and for us. Below, we share other issues our environment faces due to plastic waste:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 260 species of wildlife have ingested plastic or have become entangled in plastic debris.<\/li>\n<li>By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean (by weight) than fish.<\/li>\n<li>If current trends continue, two million metric tons of plastic waste will be in landfills or in the natural environment by 2050.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make a sea\u00a0otter&#8217;s day and pledge to use less plastic at <a href=\"https:\/\/giveasip.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giveasip.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"SUMMER 2018 BOX PARTNER A plastic straw has a lot more impact than you\u2019d think. ...","author":1427020,"featured_media":121746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[201],"tags":[439],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/04162649\/photo-1506680628388-453691f45b23.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/04162649\/photo-1506680628388-453691f45b23-386x200.jpg","formated_date":"June 5, 2018","category_name":"Members Only","category_icon":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/11113301\/iSiu0EDM.png","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#edc74b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1427020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}