{"id":3983,"date":"2017-09-05T21:09:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T04:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2017-09-05T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T04:14:52","slug":"tap-water-is-contaminated-by-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2017\/09\/05\/tap-water-is-contaminated-by-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap Water is contaminated by plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/sep\/06\/plastic-fibres-found-tap-water-around-world-study-reveals\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">New study &nbsp;highlights the extent of plastic&nbsp;<\/span>contamination<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&nbsp;in tap water world wide &#8211; learn more<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plankton arrow worm, Sagitta setosa, as seen with a blue plastic fibre in it&#8217;s gut. The fibre is approximately 3 mm long. &nbsp;Plankton is at the base of the food chain. &nbsp;This plastic fibre is transferred along the food chain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2017\/09\/05\/tap-water-is-contaminated-by-plastic\/plankton-with-plastic-thread\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3986\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2017\/09\/Plankton-with-plastic-thread-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2017\/09\/Plankton-with-plastic-thread-1024x571.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2017\/09\/Plankton-with-plastic-thread-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2017\/09\/Plankton-with-plastic-thread-768x429.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2017\/09\/Plankton-with-plastic-thread-800x446.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2017\/09\/Plankton-with-plastic-thread.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Current standard water treatment systems do not filter out all of the microplastics, Mahon said: \u201cThere is nowhere really where you can say these are being trapped 100%. In terms of fibres, the diameter is 10 microns across and it would be very unusual to find that level of filtration in our drinking water systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New study &nbsp;highlights the extent of plastic&nbsp;contamination&nbsp;in tap water world wide &#8211; learn more Plankton arrow worm, Sagitta setosa, as seen with a blue plastic fibre in it&#8217;s gut. The fibre is approximately 3 mm long. &nbsp;Plankton is at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2017\/09\/05\/tap-water-is-contaminated-by-plastic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}