{"617799":{"#nid":"617799","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Can you solve the plastics problem? New prize invites ideas","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlastic is everywhere. It pools in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2018\/06\/plastic-planet-waste-pollution-trash-crisis\/\u0022\u003Efarthest reaches of the ocean\u003C\/a\u003E and collects on the slopes of the highest mountains; researchers have found it in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/2018\/11\/dead-sperm-whale-filled-with-plastic-trash-indonesia\/\u0022\u003Ewhales\u0026rsquo; bellies\u003C\/a\u003E and in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/01\/190125112312.htm\u0022\u003Egroundwater reserves\u003C\/a\u003E we tap for drinking. Every day, about \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/7\/e1700782\u0022\u003Eone megaton more is produced\u003C\/a\u003E, enough to make almost 22 trillion water bottles\u0026mdash;and more than 90 percent of that will never see the inside of a recycling plant.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo what should we do about it? How can we keep that plastic from drowning the planet?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESolutions to a problem as \u0026ldquo;big and knotty\u0026rdquo; as this one are going to require all hands on deck, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blog.nationalgeographic.org\/tag\/valerie-craig\/\u0022\u003EValerie Craig,\u003C\/a\u003E deputy to the chief scientist at the National Geographic Society. Good ideas could come from anyone, anywhere. So to tap the entire world\u0026rsquo;s creativity and expertise, the National Geographic Society and Sky Ocean Ventures have put together the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/innovation-challenges\/plastic\/\u0022\u003EOcean Plastic Innovation Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E to source ideas from around the world about how to address plastic waste.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/2019\/02\/plastic-innovation-challenge-prize-clean-ocean\/\u0022\u003ERead the rest of the story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Plastic is choking the ocean. A new innovation challenge looks for ideas on how to solve the pollution"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2019-02-13 19:14:35","changed_gmt":"2019-02-13 19:14:35","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617797":{"id":"617797","type":"image","title":"Plastic flood - Photo by Simson Petrol","body":null,"created":"1550085147","gmt_created":"2019-02-13 19:12:27","changed":"1550085147","gmt_changed":"2019-02-13 19:12:27","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235165","name":"simson-petrol-734489-unsplash.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/simson-petrol-734489-unsplash.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/simson-petrol-734489-unsplash.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1009585,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/simson-petrol-734489-unsplash.jpg?itok=u84KVBG3"}}},"media_ids":["617797"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}