{"id":98880924,"date":"2011-10-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/mount-everest-to-install-porta-potties\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:09:24","slug":"mount-everest-to-install-porta-potties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/mount-everest-to-install-porta-potties\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Everest to Install Porta Potties?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Nepal-based environmental group is calling for portable bathrooms to be installed at some of the highest peaks on Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the group, 50 years of exploration has left Everest littered with debree including loads (pardon the adjective) of human waste.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the problem, the extreme cold at such high elevation keeps waste from decomposing quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The peak porta potties are just one initiative being looked at by environmentalists. They are also looking at ways to reduce common litter and other pollutants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word just yet on how much toilets would cost or how in the world they would be maintenanced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/destinations\/dispatches\/post\/2011\/10\/porta-potties-on-mount-everest\/553454\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Flickr: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rupertuk\/534748923\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rupert Taylor-Price <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nepal-based environmental group is calling for portable bathrooms to be installed at some of the highest peaks on Mount Everest. &nbsp; According to the group, 50 years of exploration has left Everest littered with debree including loads (pardon the adjective) of human waste. &nbsp; Adding to the problem, the extreme cold at such high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897605,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880924\/revisions\/98897605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}