{"id":255675,"date":"2018-04-19T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=255675"},"modified":"2021-04-16T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:50:53","slug":"giant-plastic-berg-blocks-indonesian-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/giant-plastic-berg-blocks-indonesian-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant plastic \u2018berg blocks Indonesian river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The fruits of capitalism!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A crisis of plastic waste in Indonesia has become so acute that the army has been called in to help.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers and canals are clogged with dense masses of bottles, bags and other plastic packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they are engaged in a &#8220;battle&#8221; against waste that accumulates as quickly as they clear it.<\/p>\n<p>The commander of a military unit in the city of Bandung described it as &#8220;our biggest enemy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Like many rapidly developing countries, Indonesia has become notorious for struggling to cope with mountains of rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>A population boom has combined with an explosive spread of plastic containers and wrapping replacing natural biodegradable packaging such as banana leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that local authorities trying to provide rubbish collection have been unable to keep up with the dramatic expansion of waste generated.<\/p>\n<p>And a longstanding culture of throwing rubbish into ditches and streams has meant that any attempt to clean up needs a massive shift in public opinion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-43823883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-43823883<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The fruits of capitalism! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":327635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}