{"id":89799,"date":"2025-08-15T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=89799"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:10:40","slug":"global-plastic-crisis-deepens-as-nations-struggle-to-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/global-plastic-crisis-deepens-as-nations-struggle-to-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"Global plastic crisis deepens as nations struggle to respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"kGQaxtHzv22wesDEgnM\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nWhile global plastic production reached 413.8 million metric tons in 2023, less than 10% is recycled. Plastic pollution harms ecosystems and human health, with studies showing accumulation in organs. Over 100 nations support a UN treaty to curb plastic production, seen as vital to addressing the crisis.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While global plastic production reached 413.8 million metric tons in 2023, less than 10% is recycled. Plastic pollution harms ecosystems and human health, with studies showing accumulation in organs. Over 100 nations support a UN treaty to curb plastic production, seen as vital to addressing the crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[38092,33563,38093],"class_list":["post-89799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-global-plastic-crisis","tag-nations","tag-respond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89802,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89799\/revisions\/89802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}