{"id":783,"date":"2019-06-04T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stopoceanplastics.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2019-06-12T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:22:06","slug":"how-a-picturesque-fishing-town-became-smothered-in-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopoceanplastics.com\/en_gb\/how-a-picturesque-fishing-town-became-smothered-in-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost Shines Spotlight on Project STOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March, the Project STOP team welcomed John Vidal, former veteran environment editor with The Guardian, who now contributes to the HuffPost, to Muncar to see our work in action. He met with the STOP team, visited the TPST facility (where waste is sorted and processes), and spoke to the community. John also travelled further afield to Surabaya to report on the reality of the waste challenge in Indonesia, and what is needed to effectively address it. He calls Project STOP a &#8220;long-term, profitable solutions to prevent Indonesian plastic waste getting into the sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; color: #002b1c;\">As the world struggles to cope with its garbage and plastic waste, places like Muncar, Indonesia bear the burden. The need for creating effective waste management systems is a big challenge, and can only be achieved through collaboration. In efforts to overcome this challenge,\u00a0Project STOP was launched in Muncar in 2018 and works with local communities and governments to create sustainable, low-cost waste systems that capture as much value from the waste as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/indonesia-plastic-waste-pollution-solutions_n_5cabc096e4b02e7a705c317c\">https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/indonesia-plastic-waste-pollution-solutions_n_5cabc096e4b02e7a705c317c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project STOP was prominently featured in an article on plastic waste pollution in the HuffPost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HuffPost Shines Spotlight on Project STOP - Project STOP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopoceanplastics.com\/en_gb\/how-a-picturesque-fishing-town-became-smothered-in-trash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HuffPost Shines Spotlight on Project STOP - Project STOP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Project STOP was prominently featured in an article on plastic waste pollution in the HuffPost.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.stopoceanplastics.com\/en_gb\/how-a-picturesque-fishing-town-became-smothered-in-trash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Project STOP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-04T15:37:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-06-12T13:22:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.stopoceanplastics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stopimage.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"682\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Project STOP\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stopoceanplastics.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stopoceanplastics.com\/\",\"name\":\"Project STOP\",\"description\":\"STOP WASTE. 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