{"id":595729,"date":"2023-02-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/?p=595729"},"modified":"2024-08-06T14:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T18:24:35","slug":"how-long-till-its-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/all\/how-long-till-its-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"How long till it&#8217;s &#8220;gone&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever noticed that plastic is everywhere? It&#8217;s in lots of things we use every day, from our toothbrushes and shampoo bottles to our binders and chairs. Plastic sure seems handy, doesn&#8217;t it? Well, not everything is as good as it seems!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with plastic is that it takes a really (we mean REALLY) long time to break down. And when it finally does, it doesn&#8217;t actually disappear. It just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces called microplastics, which then get into the air, our water, and our food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>See if you can guess how long each plastic item takes to break down into microplastics!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"riddle_target\" data-rid-id=\"464008\" data-fg=\"#5BC20F\" data-bg=\"rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3)\" style=\"margin:0 auto;max-width:100%;width:640px;\" data-auto-scroll=\"true\" data-auto-scroll-offset=\"5\">\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/files\/js\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/files\/css\/embed.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n<iframe style=\"width:100%;height:300px;border:1px solid #cfcfcf;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/a\/464008?\" allow=\"autoplay\" title=\"Quiz - How long till it's gone?\"><\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>\n<h2>How long till it&#8217;s gone?<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>\n<h2><strong>Plastic Bag<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<h2><strong>Plastic Straw<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<h2><strong>Plastic Toothbrush<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<h2><strong>Plastic Water Bottle<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<h2><strong>6-pack plastic rings<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Chewing Gum<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Diaper<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>Clearly, plastic isn&#8217;t going to disappear overnight, but we can all help by cutting back on the amount we use every day.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>Clearly, plastic isn&#8217;t going to disappear overnight, but we can all help by cutting back on the amount we use every day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Join the Rangers vs. Plastics Challenge and help us kick plastic waste out of the game for good! Look for it in the Challenges section of the Earth Rangers App.<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that plastic is everywhere? It&#8217;s in lots of things we use every day, from our toothbrushes and shampoo bottles to our binders and chairs. Plastic sure seems handy, doesn&#8217;t it? Well, not everything is as good as it seems! The problem with plastic is that it takes a really (we mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,1414],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all","8":"category-challenges"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596631,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595729\/revisions\/596631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}