{"id":153399,"date":"2017-06-08T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=153399"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T05:01:34","slug":"healthy-oceans-happy-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2017\/06\/08\/healthy-oceans-happy-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy oceans &#8211; happy planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 theme for World Oceans Day is \u201cOur Oceans, Our Future\u201d, with the focus on encouraging solutions to plastic pollution and preventing marine litter for healthier oceans and a better future for the planet.<br \/>\nAccording to the Department of Environmental Affairs, plastic and synthetic materials are the most common types of waste found in our oceans.<br \/>\nAt least 267 different types of marine species, they say, are known to have suffered from entanglement or ingestion of these materials; these include seabirds, turtles, seals, sea lions, whales and fish.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Fx38BYNziIw' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>In 2016 Durban beaches were closed off after they were found to be polluted with medical waste which had washed up onto the shores of numerous beaches in the Kwazulu-Natal area.<br \/>\nDuring the 2015 International Coastal Clean-up Day in East London, a total of 16 141 volunteers collected over 109 000 litter items over just 77 kilometres of coastline.<br \/>\nIt is vital that communities use World Oceans Day to raise awareness about the problem of plastic litter &#8211; to encourage the public to recycle plastic and to make a conscious decision not to pollute our waters.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='2ad874373201cf7ad4298326a2d848f7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Oceans Day, June 8, is a global day of ocean celebration and collaboration for a better future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":153400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Carmen Norton","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686],"tags":[11269,10304,10298,14796,14797],"class_list":["post-153399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","tag-ocean-pollution","tag-plastic-bottle-pollution","tag-pollution","tag-sea-life","tag-world-ocean-day"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["ocean pollution","plastic bottle pollution","pollution","sea life","world ocean day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}