{"id":1070,"date":"2025-01-10T15:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:44:36","slug":"how-the-world-fell-in-love-with-plastic-without-thinking-through-the-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gemma Ware and I made a podcast for The Conversation on how we ended up with so much plastic waste and what we can do about it. My suggestion is that we need to move to an economic model where companies can only sell products into regions where the waste infrastructure exists to collect, reuse, repair and finally recycle those products. Listen <a href=\"http:\/\/How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequences\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-10-at-15.43.47.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-10-at-15.43.47-1024x743.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1071\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-10-at-15.43.47-1024x743.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-10-at-15.43.47-300x218.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-10-at-15.43.47-768x557.png 768w, http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-10-at-15.43.47-1536x1114.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-10-at-15.43.47-414x300.png 414w, http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-10-at-15.43.47.png 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Ware and I made a podcast for The Conversation on how we ended up with so much plastic waste and what we can do about it. My suggestion is that we need to move to an economic model where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/?p=1070\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}