{"id":15052,"date":"2025-09-24T04:34:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/covids-plastic-hangover-is-being-ignored\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T04:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:34:59","slug":"covids-plastic-hangover-is-being-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/covids-plastic-hangover-is-being-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID\u2019s plastic hangover is being ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/305\/shutterstock-1767620465_316981.jpg\" \/><br \/>The environmental lessons gained from COVID-19 risk being swept under the carpet.<br \/>\nBillions of discarded masks are breaking down into microplastics and toxic chemicals.<br \/>\nFFPs shed up to four times more microplastics than alternatives.<br \/>\nAt the peak, an estimated 129 billion masks were thrown away every month.<br \/>\nSustainable, science-driven solutions vital to prevent repeating the same mistakes.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/news\/apparel-news\/covid-s-plastic-hangover-is-being-ignored-305393-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environmental lessons gained from COVID-19 risk being swept under the carpet. Billions of discarded masks are breaking down into microplastics and toxic chemicals. FFPs shed up to four times more microplastics than alternatives. At the peak, an estimated 129 billion masks were thrown away every month. Sustainable, science-driven solutions vital to prevent repeating the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}