{"id":899805,"date":"2026-04-17T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/blind-box-culture-exacerbates-plastic-waste-science\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:19:08","slug":"blind-box-culture-exacerbates-plastic-waste-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/blind-box-culture-exacerbates-plastic-waste-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind box culture exacerbates plastic waste | Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The global blind box market, in which consumers buy collectible figurines without knowing which figurine is in which box, has expanded at extraordinary speed. China\u2019s designer toy industry alone is projected to exceed US$15 billion in retail sales by 2026\u2014a more than 15-fold increase since 2015 (1&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aeg6547\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Qiana Serna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The global blind box market, in which consumers buy collectible figurines without knowing which figurine is in which box, has expanded at extraordinary speed. China\u2019s designer toy industry alone is projected to exceed US$15 billion in retail sales by 2026\u2014a more than 15-fold increase since 2015 (1&#8230;Read MoreQiana Serna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":899806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1976,693,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-blind","category-culture","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}