{"id":2789,"date":"2025-08-25T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=2789"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:16:27","slug":"plastic-pollution-is-a-silent-but-significant-contributor","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/plastic-pollution-is-a-silent-but-significant-contributor\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic pollution is a silent but significant contributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/programs\/new-voices-fellowship\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Voices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fellow <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/our_fellows\/mojisola-ojebode\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mojisola Ojebode<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> recently published a piece on how plastic pollution in agriculture has become a silent but significant contributor to environmental degradation. While plastics enhance farming efficiency, their long-term effects on soil health, food safety, and human health demand urgent regulatory reform and a shift toward sustainable alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read her op-ed below to learn how unchecked plastic use in agriculture is harming our health and why urgent, collective action is needed to rethink how we grow our food.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2952,"template":"","publication_category":[49],"publication_theme":[87,151,70],"class_list":["post-2789","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_category-oped","publication_theme-agriculture","publication_theme-environment","publication_theme-food-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}