{"id":8968,"date":"2019-08-08T17:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8968"},"modified":"2019-08-08T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:03:19","slug":"mexicos-cactus-offers-alternative-to-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mexicos-cactus-offers-alternative-to-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s cactus offers alternative to plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A Mexican researcher has invented a new form of\nbiodegradable plastic made primarily from the juice of prickly pear cactus\n(opuntia).<\/li><li>The pulp\nof the prickly pear is mixed with non-toxic additives to produce sheets that\ncan be used for packaging. <\/li><li>In March 2019, UN member states at the United\nNations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, pledged to\nsignificantly reduce single-use plastic products by 2030.<\/li><li>Single-use plastics, or disposable plastics, are\nthe ones which are used only once before they are thrown away or\nrecycled.&nbsp;Example: plastic straws, plastic bottles, plastic cutlery etc. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mexican researcher has invented a new form of biodegradable plastic made primarily from the juice of prickly pear cactus (opuntia). The pulp of the prickly pear is mixed with non-toxic additives to produce sheets that can be used for packaging. In March 2019, UN member states at the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mexicos-cactus-offers-alternative-to-plastics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mexico\u2019s cactus offers alternative to plastics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4596],"class_list":["post-8968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-biodegradable-plastic","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701776873},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}