{"id":4688,"date":"2022-04-20T19:37:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bildwpaquabokalocal.local\/?page_id=4688\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T19:37:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T19:37:26","slug":"marine-litter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/aquarium-boka\/fascinating-facts\/marine-litter\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>About 80% of marine litter came from the land<\/li>\n<li>Tourism, recreational activities on the coast and poor waste management are the main sources of marine and coastal pollution by litter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 10 litter items collected on beaches<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cigarette butts and filters 13%<\/li>\n<li>Plastic pieces 11 %<\/li>\n<li>Crisps packets\/sweets wrappers 6 %<\/li>\n<li>Plastic bottle caps 10 %<\/li>\n<li>Polystyrene pieces 4%<\/li>\n<li>Fast food containers 3%<\/li>\n<li>Plastic cups 2%<\/li>\n<li>Cotton bud sticks 2%<\/li>\n<li>Straws and stirrers 2%<\/li>\n<li>Plastic drink bottles 2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Decomposition rates of marine litter<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Banana peel 3-4 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Cardboard 2 months<\/li>\n<li>Wood 1-3 years<\/li>\n<li>Cigarette butts and filters 10-12 years<\/li>\n<li>Plastic bags 10-20 years<\/li>\n<li>Synthetic clothing 30-40 years<\/li>\n<li>Batteries 100 years<\/li>\n<li>Can 200-250 years<\/li>\n<li>Plastic bottle 450 years<\/li>\n<li>Fishing line 600 years<\/li>\n<li>Glass bottle 1,000,000 years<\/li>\n<li>Some plastic never decomposes down!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Back to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/aquarium-boka\/fascinating-facts\/\">Fascinating facts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 80% of marine litter came from the land Tourism, recreational activities on the coast and poor waste management are the main sources of marine and coastal pollution by litter Top 10 litter items collected on beaches Cigarette butts and filters 13% Plastic pieces 11 % Crisps packets\/sweets wrappers 6 % Plastic bottle caps 10 % Polystyrene pieces 4% Fast&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4673,"parent":2481,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4688\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}