{"id":191,"date":"2019-05-31T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/?p=191"},"modified":"2021-05-26T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T01:49:16","slug":"war-on-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"War on Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We started on this journey as a New Year&#8217;s Resolution. We have a beach which we visit once a year in the Caribbean. This last Christmas we had a wonderful time. Everything was beautiful. There was more plastic than ever. The caretakers who clean the beach do a great job. Every wave brought more plastic. So we decided to make one change every week which will eliminate a single use disposable from our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is what I have learned&#8230; it&#8217;s not as hard as I thought it might be. Each new week, and each new routine is hard at the beginning and then it becomes the new routine&#8230; and doesn&#8217;t take up as much time as it did before. The big picture is, basically we have had to change how we eat. The good news &#8211; we&#8217;re eliminating the preservatives and most of the sugar right along with the plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, follow along, change what you can, go to a climate protest, don&#8217;t sweat the small stuff. If you are plastic free 5 days of the week and end up at Harvey&#8217;s on a Friday (as we did) you don&#8217;t worry about it. I think next time I will take along my own cups though, the rest of the wrappers they give you are recyclable&#8230;just saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some pictures of our beautiful beach. I&#8217;m hoping when my kids take pictures here with their kids it won&#8217;t be like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/beach-plastic-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" width=\"785\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/beach-plastic-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/beach-plastic-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/beach-plastic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" width=\"788\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/beach-plastic-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/beach-plastic-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started on this journey as a New Year&#8217;s Resolution. We have a beach which we visit once a year in the Caribbean. This last Christmas we had a wonderful time. Everything was beautiful. There was more plastic than ever. The caretakers who clean the beach do a great job. Every wave brought more plastic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[6,47,60,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}