{"id":3023,"date":"2025-08-04T14:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:09:41","slug":"the-age-of-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3023","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/plastic-pollution-health-crisis-disease-death\/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us\">Plastic causing &#8220;disease and death from infancy to old age&#8221; that costs $1.5 trillion a year, report warns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every time I go to Costco I see someone pushing a cart loaded with disposable plastic bottles of water. Why? Buy a filter for your tap and get the same result for a lot less. Why did people go out and buy all those fancy reusable water bottles if they going to buy disposable ones? Why can&#8217;t soda and beer come in deposit returnable bottles again? <\/p>\n<p>If we are risking early death and dropping fertility rates, maybe some thing should be done. Like we did with with climate change. Oh, wait, I forgot, we haven&#8217;t addressed that either. Sometimes I forget that humans are stupid, selfish, wasteful and self destructive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic causing &#8220;disease and death from infancy to old age&#8221; that costs $1.5 trillion a year, report warns Every time I go to Costco I see someone pushing a cart loaded with disposable plastic bottles of water. Why? Buy a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3023\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}