{"id":1426,"date":"2011-01-19T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2011-01-19T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:08:56","slug":"medical-waste-spreads-down-leeward-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/19\/medical-waste-spreads-down-leeward-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical waste spreads down Leeward Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, Honolulu Star Advertiser, 18 January 2011<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/media.staradvertiser.com\/images\/300*199\/20110118_newsWASTE3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Medical waste and other trash continued to soil Leeward Coast beaches  yesterday, washing ashore in spots farther down the shore from where the  debris was initially found. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Billand, a volunteer with the Hawaiian Monk  Seal Response Team, said her group found a vial of blood, more than a  dozen syringes and a bag of plastic medical tubing over the past two  days while scouring White Plains, Nimitz and Maipalaoa beaches. The  group began its cleanup out of concern over a monk seal in the area that  was last seen Saturday at White Plains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are concerned not just for people, but for the monk seals,&#8221; Billand said.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health issued a statement Sunday  saying Waste Management had provided documentation showing the medical  waste had been sterilized and was not considered infectious, although  the public still was at risk of puncture wounds. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/hawaiinews\/20110118_Medical_waste_spreads_down_Leeward_Coast.html\">Full Story<\/a>: Honolulu Star Advertiser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Watch, Honolulu Star Advertiser, 18 January 2011 Medical waste and other trash continued to soil Leeward Coast beaches yesterday, washing ashore in spots farther down the shore from where the debris was initially found. [&#8230;] Barbara Billand, a volunteer with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Response Team, said her group found a vial of blood, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/19\/medical-waste-spreads-down-leeward-coast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medical waste spreads down Leeward Coast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-main-hawaiian-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}