{"id":1189,"date":"2023-02-02T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:27:44","slug":"whoi-scientists-discuss-the-chemistry-behind-sri-lankas-flaming-plastic-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/whoi-scientists-discuss-the-chemistry-behind-sri-lankas-flaming-plastic-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"WHOI scientists discuss the chemistry behind Sri Lanka&#8217;s flaming plastic spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight months ago, the flaming wreck of M\/V\u00a0<em>X-Press Pearl<\/em>\u00a0littered the coast of Sri Lanka with waves of burnt and unburnt plastic pellets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/oceanus\/feature\/whoi-scientists-plastic-sri-lanka-x-press-pearl-disaster-chemistry\/\">Today, the WHOI researchers who helped provide information to responders say the disaster was a unique exercise in international collaboration during plastic spills.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight months ago, the flaming wreck of M\/V\u00a0X-Press Pearl\u00a0littered the coast of Sri Lanka with waves of burnt and unburnt plastic pellets. Today, the WHOI researchers who helped provide information to responders say the disaster was a unique exercise in international collaboration during plastic spills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}