{"id":105300,"date":"2020-04-13T23:25:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/mutant-enzyme-recycles-plastic-in-hours-could-revolutionize-recycling-industry"},"modified":"2020-04-13T23:25:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T06:25:21","slug":"mutant-enzyme-recycles-plastic-in-hours-could-revolutionize-recycling-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/mutant-enzyme-recycles-plastic-in-hours-could-revolutionize-recycling-industry","title":{"rendered":"Mutant Enzyme Recycles Plastic in Hours, Could Revolutionize Recycling Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mutant-enzyme-recycles-plastic-in-hours-could-revolutionize-recycling-industry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have engineered a mutant enzyme that converts 90 percent of plastic bottles back to pristine starting materials that can then be used to produce new high-quality bottles in just hours. The discovery could revolutionize the recycling industry, which currently saves about 30 percent of PET plastics from landfills, reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/04\/huge-step-forward-mutant-enzyme-could-vastly-improve-recycling-plastic-bottles\" target=\"_blank\">Science Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have engineered a mutant enzyme that converts 90 percent of plastic bottles back to pristine starting materials that can then be used to produce new high-quality bottles in just hours. The discovery could revolutionize the recycling industry, which currently saves about 30 percent of PET plastics from landfills, reported Science Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}