{"id":6119,"date":"2017-03-16T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2017-03-14T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:22:10","slug":"good-idea-plastic-bags-from-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-plastic-bags-from-shrimp\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD IDEA: Plastic Bags from Shrimp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternatives exist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>#breakingdownplastic<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The whole world has a trash problem, but the issue is particularly pressing in Egypt, where scientists are trying to develop better biodegradable plastics. Their most promising solution, so far, is a polymer derived from shrimp shells.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/01\/10\/Scientists-make-grocery-bags-out-of-shrimp-shells\/5411484063065\" target=\"_blank\">READ THE STORY&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTEND THE SUMMIT:<\/strong><br \/>\nBreaking Down Plastics Summit<br \/>\nThe Charleston Gaillard Center<br \/>\nCharleston, South Carolina<br \/>\nThursday, March 30, 8 a.m. \u2013 5 p.m.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plastic.scaquarium.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">REGISTER NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ACT LOCALLY:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/CharlestonLEARN\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lowcountry Environmental Alliance &amp; Resource Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternatives exist&#8230; #breakingdownplastic The whole world has a trash problem, but the issue is particularly pressing in Egypt, where scientists are trying<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-plastic-bags-from-shrimp\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":6120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,12,36,11,10,9,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}