{"id":23932,"date":"2025-09-16T01:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/23932\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:11:07","slug":"japan-backs-development-of-new-materials-to-cut-marine-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/23932\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan backs development of new materials to cut marine plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The industry ministry is supporting the development of a new plastic material that naturally decomposes in the sea as marine environmental pollution becomes ever more serious.<\/p>\n<p>The move is part of efforts to achieve the government&#8217;s goal of stopping the generation of marine plastic waste by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>In July, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Japan pulled up a piece of plastic waste measuring 3 meters long and a meter wide in waters near Tatara Island, Nagasaki Prefecture. It took three months and \u00a5500,000 ($3,385) to recover the waste, in which a large number of fishing nets and ropes were entangled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The industry ministry is supporting the development of a new plastic material that naturally decomposes in the sea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,20554,14739,7527,13483,82,20553],"class_list":["post-23932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meti","tag-oceans","tag-plastic","tag-pollution","tag-science","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}