{"id":46964,"date":"2026-02-18T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/its-overwhelming-plastic-from-1960s-canada-washes-up-on-orkney-beach\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:58:09","slug":"its-overwhelming-plastic-from-1960s-canada-washes-up-on-orkney-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/its-overwhelming-plastic-from-1960s-canada-washes-up-on-orkney-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;It&#039;s overwhelming&#039;: Plastic from 1960s Canada washes up on Orkney beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>One litter picker says he has seen a huge increase in the amount of plastic washing up on Sanday this year.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2k8g4p44l0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One litter picker says he has seen a huge increase in the amount of plastic washing up on Sanday this year. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1413,13790,192,4738,5635,13789,189,8481],"class_list":["post-46964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-039it039s","tag-1960s","tag-beach","tag-canada","tag-orkney","tag-overwhelming039","tag-plastic","tag-washes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46966,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46964\/revisions\/46966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}