{"id":74,"date":"2013-10-13T22:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T22:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simcobox.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2015-01-02T02:19:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T02:19:55","slug":"did-you-know-that-about-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/did-you-know-that-about-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that about plastic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know this about plastics?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The production of paper bags requires more energy\u00a0and oil (in addition to trees) than the production\u00a0of plastic bags and also produces greater pollutants.<\/li>\n<li>Plastic grocery sacks require 1\/4th the storage space\u00a0of paper, both at the grocery and in the land fill.<\/li>\n<li>Plastics packaging has helped reduce food spoilage\u00a0in the industrialized world to around 2%. Developing\u00a0countries have a spoilage rate of between 30 to 50% .<\/li>\n<li>The manufacture of all plastics only uses about 2%\u00a0of the crude oil and natural gas consumed annually\u00a0in the U.S .<\/li>\n<li>Plastics in the average motorist&#8217;s car cuts fuel consumption\u00a0by nearly 5% and contributes to improved\u00a0safety performance .<\/li>\n<li>Plastics neither rot nor rust, and applications continue\u00a0to increase. Witness the increased use of plastic\u00a0lumber .<\/li>\n<li>Best of all, plastics can be recycled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know this about plastics? The production of paper bags requires more energy\u00a0and oil (in addition to trees) than the production\u00a0of plastic bags and also produces greater pollutants. Plastic grocery sacks require 1\/4th the storage space\u00a0of paper, both at the grocery and in the land fill. Plastics packaging has helped reduce food spoilage\u00a0in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simcobox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}