{"id":32905,"date":"2019-07-19T14:03:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=32905"},"modified":"2019-07-19T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:03:22","slug":"plastic-free-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=32905","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Free July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NorthsideToday-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30287\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NorthsideToday-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NorthsideToday-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NorthsideToday-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-155x110.jpg 155w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NorthsideToday-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-300x213-300x213-1-300x213-1-300x213-90x64.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mindy O&#8217;Brien, Coordinator, Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment (VOICE), talks to Noel McGuinness about Plastic Free July. She explains that every July VOICE takes part in this international movement that challenges us to live our daily lives without plastic. This sort of challenge shows us both the ubiquity of plastic in our everyday lives but also how many alternatives there are when we are forced to look.\u00a0 Some easy wins include refillable washing up liquid, using soap instead of bodywash and buying loose where possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>Broadcast: 19\/07\/2019<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_283\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('283','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=32905-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 10:41 &#8212; 14.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy O&#8217;Brien, Coordinator, Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment (VOICE), talks to Noel McGuinness about Plastic Free July. She explains that every July VOICE takes part in this international movement that challenges us to live our daily lives without plastic. This sort of challenge shows us both the ubiquity of plastic in our everyday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_284\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('284','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=32905-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Nst-19-7-2019-001.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 10:41 &#8212; 14.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[15152,2065,2205,15151,15150],"class_list":["post-32905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today","tag-daily-lives-without-plastic","tag-mindy-obrien","tag-noel-mcguinness","tag-plastic-free-july","tag-voice-of-irish-concern-for-the-environment-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32906,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32905\/revisions\/32906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}