{"id":53350,"date":"2015-02-14T05:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=53350"},"modified":"2015-02-14T05:17:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:17:24","slug":"bye-bye-plastic-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=53350","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye:  Plastic World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>growing up here in hawaii, i never thought the world had a rubbish problem.  i thought it was just common sense to throw rubbish in trash cans.  hawaii is very clean, and that&#8217;s how i thought the world was.  it wasn&#8217;t until i went to japan till i noticed a lot of trash on the beaches.  then when i went to indonesia, i was in shock.  then after going to the philippines, i was in total shock.  i traveled throughout asia and it blew my mind on the rubbish problem and how uneducated people are.  still till this day, i will never forget the image of the staff throwing over the big rubbish bags into the ocean at night.  total disbelief.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1024x768.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1024x768-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"photo-1024x768\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53351\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe report came out today that there are 8 million tons of plastic in our ocean.  that is 16,000,000,000 pounds, or 7,257,477,920 kilograms of plastic floating in the sea right now.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ocean-polllution-728x400.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ocean-polllution-728x400-640x352.jpeg\" alt=\"ocean-polllution-728x400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53354\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n30% of the plastic pollution comes from china.  number 2 is indonesia, followed by number 3 philippines.  i&#8217;ve never been to china before but if there is more plastics in the ocean than indonesia or philippines, that&#8217;s scary.  we live in a plastic world and scientists say that it will be 10 times worst by 2020.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/plastic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/plastic-640x414.jpg\" alt=\"plastic\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53352\" \/><\/a><br \/>\none major problem are plastic bags.  they get caught to marine life and kill them.  i&#8217;ve seen this with my own eyes many many times.<br \/>\nso what are we doing about it?  well, i&#8217;m proud to say that hawaii has stepped up to ban plastic bags.  yes, there will be no plastic bags starting july 1, 2015.  that&#8217;s a huge step in the right direction.  i just hope other countries will follow.  then our ocean will be a cleaner place for the generations and generations to come.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>growing up here in hawaii, i never thought the world had a rubbish problem. i thought it was just common sense to throw rubbish in trash cans. hawaii is very clean, and that&#8217;s how i thought the world was. it wasn&#8217;t until i went to japan till i noticed a lot of trash on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}