{"id":499,"date":"2023-11-30T17:19:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=499"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:19:42","slug":"pollution-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/11\/30\/pollution-4\/","title":{"rendered":"pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I love to paint and one of the most affordable types of paint is acrylics. Acrylics are microplastics: everytime I wash my brushes I&#8217;m dumping plastic down the drain, everytime I paint all i&#8217;m doing is smearing plastic on cotton. Where is this art gonna end up when I&#8217;m dead? What about when I decide my art isn&#8217;t worth keeping anymore? It will all be trash. I&#8217;m working with materials that will never leave, materials that when returned to the environment do nothing but cause harm. I can make art without polluting. There&#8217;s a better way, people have been painting for centuries, way before plastics were ever invented. Maybe I can make my own paint! As an individual I have the time and resources to seek out non-polluting paint alternatives, but it shouldn&#8217;t be an individual&#8217;s responsibility. Alternet paints should be accessible, they should be sold in stores, they should be cheap enough to afford. That statement can be re-apply to almost anything. Water should be accessible, food should be accessible, housing should be accessible. DAMN! Everytime I run a tap to get water I\u2019m polluting, aren&#8217;t I? The plumbing system, what is it powered by? Is it powered by fossil fuels? Everytime I eat, I&#8217;m eating foods that have traveled miles on a truck to get to me. Every action to maintain my own life is an act of pollution. We have been made reliant on a system that pollutes. AGHH!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to paint and one of the most affordable types of paint is acrylics. Acrylics are microplastics: everytime I wash my brushes I&#8217;m dumping plastic down the drain, everytime I paint all i&#8217;m doing is smearing plastic on cotton. Where is this art gonna end up when I&#8217;m dead? What about when I decide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}