{"id":2589,"date":"2017-10-27T09:13:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2017-10-27T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:13:42","slug":"students-design-use-and-throw-organic-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2017\/10\/students-design-use-and-throw-organic-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Students design use-and-throw organic pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students of the Panchayat Union Middle School in\u00a0Tamil Nadu have been using eco-friendly pens in an effort to check the usage of plastic materials.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of the students use the use-and-throw plastic pens available in the market, which badly affect the environment.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1196 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Homepagecarroussel-research1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Homepagecarroussel-research1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plantain leaf, papaya leaf stem, coconut leaf, and castor stem are used as body of the pen. They have fixed the nib at one end of the stem, and closed the other end using maida starch to hold the ink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/students-go-for-eco-friendly-pen\/article19786084.ece\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students of the Panchayat Union Middle School in\u00a0Tamil Nadu have been using eco-friendly pens in an effort to check the usage of plastic materials. A majority of the students use the use-and-throw plastic pens available in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2017\/10\/students-design-use-and-throw-organic-pen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,55,26],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-oil-research","category-castor-plastics","category-castor-research","tag-castor-plastics-2","tag-castor-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}