{"id":57897,"date":"2019-02-27T06:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57897"},"modified":"2019-02-27T06:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:33:41","slug":"ikea-comes-up-with-a-unique-fun-way-to-keep-rivers-clean-good-ship-ikea-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/02\/27\/ikea-comes-up-with-a-unique-fun-way-to-keep-rivers-clean-good-ship-ikea-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA comes up with a unique, fun way to keep rivers clean &#8211; Good Ship IKEA boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish furniture and home accessories giant IKEA is living up to its reputation of being an environment-friendly brand by attempting to provide solutions to the many environmental problems faced by the world today.<\/p>\n<p>After announcing the launch of its Gunrid air-purifying curtains, the company has now come up with remote-controlled Good Ship IKEA boats that can tidy up floating garbage in lakes and rivers. Interestingly, these boats have been modeled after the SM\u00c5KRYP bath toy set.<\/p>\n<p>Each boat can salvage up to 44 pounds of trash at a time. Weighing 150 pounds and measuring in at 10-feet long, the boats could prove to be a fun and innovative solution for keeping the rivers free of garbage.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, two of the boats were deployed into Deptford Creek in southeast London as a means of tidying up the river and celebrating the opening of IKEA\u2019s newest branch in Greenwich.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/ikea-develops-remote-controlled-boats-to-collect-garbage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/ikea-develops-remote-controlled-boats-to-collect-garbage\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish furniture and home accessories giant IKEA is living up to its reputation of being an environment-friendly brand by attempting to provide solutions to the many environmental problems faced by the world today. After announcing the launch of its Gunrid air-purifying curtains, the company has now come up with remote-controlled Good Ship IKEA boats that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}