{"id":100758,"date":"2019-07-08T02:25:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T00:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/08\/the-odour-of-burning-wakes-us-inside-the-philippines-plastic-city\/"},"modified":"2019-07-08T02:25:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T00:25:34","slug":"the-odour-of-burning-wakes-us-inside-the-philippines-plastic-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=100758","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The odour of burning wakes us&#039;: inside the Philippines&#039; Plastic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Valenzuela City, residents blame recycling plants for pungent smells and respiratory illnessesAs noon approaches in Valenzuela City and residents prepare to have their lunch, a pungent smell of melted plastic swirls through the air, killing everyone\u2019s appetite. \u201cIt gets suffocating in the evening. We have to close our windows despite the heat and bury our noses under our blankets when we sleep,\u201d says Rosalie Esplana, 40. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/jul\/08\/waste-recycling-smell-pollution-philippines-plastic-city\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;The odour of burning wakes us&#039;: inside the Philippines&#039; Plastic City<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Valenzuela City, residents blame recycling plants for pungent smells and respiratory illnessesAs noon approaches in Valenzuela City and residents prepare to have their lunch, a pungent smell of melted plastic swirls through the air, killing everyone\u2019s appetite. \u201cIt gets suffocating in the evening. We have to close our windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}