{"id":3125,"date":"2016-04-23T21:32:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/23\/9-ways-to-spend-an-environmentally-friendly-day-at-the-beach\/"},"modified":"2016-04-23T21:32:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T13:32:07","slug":"9-ways-to-spend-an-environmentally-friendly-day-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/23\/9-ways-to-spend-an-environmentally-friendly-day-at-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"9 ways to spend an environmentally friendly day at the beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gettyimages-146514302\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE4LzU1L0dldHR5SW1hZ2VzLjMwMmI3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/c8bcc273\/e32\/GettyImages-146514302.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=9+ways+to+spend+an+environmentally+friendly+day+at+the+beach&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F23%2Fbeach-clean-tips%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F23%2Fbeach-clean-tips%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Some of the most beautiful things in life are the most fragile. Case in point: beaches.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Earth Day may be behind us, but taking care of the planet is a year-round job. Here are nine ways we can avoid becoming the garbage generation who ruined beaches forever:<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/02\/australias-beaches-street-view\/\">Stroll along Australia&#8217;s beaches this summer with Google&#8217;s Street View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h2\">1. Don&#8217;t leave behind trash.<\/h2>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Even though this may seem obvious, it bears repeating:\u00a0The sands of time will not forget garbage \u2014 or garbage people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The world does not need any more photographs of baby seals entangled in plastic six pack rings.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even the innocuous-seeming detritus is deadly.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Cigarette butts \u2014 21% of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.good.is\/articles\/good-instructions-enjoying-the-beach-without-ruining-it\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> all debris collected from beaches<\/a>\u00a0\u2014<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0contain carcinogens and chemicals that are too often ingested by animals.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/23\/beach-clean-tips\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/summer-travel\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Summer Travel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tips\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tips<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/environment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Environment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/beach\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Beach<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/travel\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Travel<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1461417286' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1461417286'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/WhOWLxYinrY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most beautiful things in life are the most fragile. Case in point: beaches. Earth Day may be behind us, but taking care of the planet is a year-round job. Here are nine ways we can avoid becoming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/23\/9-ways-to-spend-an-environmentally-friendly-day-at-the-beach\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2407,1724,2405,2406,785],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-beach","tag-environment","tag-summer-travel","tag-tips","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}