{"id":31974,"date":"2026-03-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=31974"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:00:00","slug":"from-fishing-nets-to-furniture-turning-ocean-plastic-into-usable-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=31974","title":{"rendered":"From fishing nets to furniture: Turning ocean plastic into usable products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apicms.thestar.com.my\/uploads\/images\/2026\/03\/10\/3805777.jpg\" \/><br \/>Environmentalists face a hidden scourge in abandoned fishing nets that drift beneath the waves and blanket the ocean floor, but some startups are trying to tackle the problem by recycling the nets into commercial products. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/lifestyle\/living\/2026\/03\/22\/from-fishing-nets-to-furniture-turning-ocean-plastic-into-usable-products\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/lifestyle\/living\/2026\/03\/22\/from-fishing-nets-to-furniture-turning-ocean-plastic-into-usable-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.thestar.com.my<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists face a hidden scourge in abandoned fishing nets that drift beneath the waves and blanket the ocean floor, but some startups are trying to tackle the problem by recycling the nets into commercial products. Read full story Source: www.thestar.com.my Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[22128,15392,22129,18217,17325,10654,11262,22130],"class_list":["post-31974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-fishing","tag-furniture","tag-nets","tag-ocean","tag-plastic","tag-products","tag-turning","tag-usable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}