{"id":1083,"date":"2016-05-27T14:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:31:07","slug":"brewery-develops-edible-six-pack-rings-help-keep-marine-life-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/brewery-develops-edible-six-pack-rings-help-keep-marine-life-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewery Develops Edible Six Pack Rings to Help Keep Marine Life Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the heartbreaking pictures of aquatic animals trapped in scrap plastic six pack rings that people discard in the ocean, do yourself a favor and Google it.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason it should continue to happen in today&#8217;s day and age, and Florida-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saltwaterbrewery.com\/\">Saltwater Brewery<\/a> has decided to do something about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>To combat the threat marine life face on a regular basis from those little plastic webs, Saltwater Brewery developed the world\u2019s first fully biodegradable, compostable, edible six pack rings.]<\/p>\n<p>Comprised of barley and wheat, the edible sick pack rings aren&#8217;t exactly a steak dinner, but they are edible and will ultimately help keep marine life safe.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the edible six pack rings cost more to make, but the brewery simply charges a bit more for its beer to compensate for higher production costs.<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t willing to pay more for a beer that comes in eco-friendly rings and will help save lives of aquatic animals, you&#8217;re probably part of the problem in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, Saltwater Brewery hopes the giant companies in the industry will eventually follow suit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-YG9gUJMGyw\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the heartbreaking pictures of aquatic animals trapped in scrap plastic six pack rings that people discard in the ocean, do yourself a favor and Google it. There&#8217;s no reason it should continue to happen in today&#8217;s day and age, and Florida-based Saltwater Brewery has decided to do something about the issue. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[557,556],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}