{"id":297520,"date":"2025-11-17T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297520\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:16:17","slug":"recycling-event-at-south-padre-island-collects-more-plastic-than-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297520\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling event at South Padre Island collects more plastic than last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Uh9AThtbP5yfhwfKOCj2KA5LmkZLMBJ1rngkFiH-ms5jfntyC3LQwiuQetfQi4_J8ozb2FdhZ1YVDTj7H4YARrIVIXnO2RXECT7P.jpeg\" alt=\"Recycling event at South Padre Island collects more plastic than last year\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Volunteers broke the record for the amount of plastic collected at South Padre Island this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Sea Turtle Inc held a recycling event. They say, on average, one out of every six sea turtles they rescue is hurt from plastic in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Sea Turtle Inc. collected 780 plastic bags and 14 pounds of water bottles. Officials say, on Sunday, they have collected more than that.<\/p>\n<p>So far, they have already treated over 100 injured or sick sea turtles this year. Yearly, they usually treat anywhere from 75 to 100 sea turtles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have had our highest number of patients recorded in history coming through our facility, and we still have a month and a half left,&#8221; Sea Turtle Inc. Environmental Education Taylor Dunham said.<\/p>\n<p>We can do our part to help by throwing away our trash or using reusable bags and water bottles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers broke the record for the amount of plastic collected at South Padre Island this past weekend. Sea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[155212,192,19939,11743,155215,155214,79,155211,155213,155210],"class_list":["post-297520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-coastal-cleanup","tag-environment","tag-marine-conservation","tag-plastic-pollution","tag-plastic-record","tag-recycling-event","tag-science","tag-sea-turtle-inc","tag-sea-turtle-rescue","tag-south-padre-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}