{"id":113773,"date":"2020-10-03T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-made-a-super-enzyme-that-absolutely-ravages-plastic-bottles"},"modified":"2020-10-03T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:22:35","slug":"scientists-made-a-super-enzyme-that-absolutely-ravages-plastic-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-made-a-super-enzyme-that-absolutely-ravages-plastic-bottles","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Made a Super-Enzyme That Absolutely Ravages Plastic Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-made-a-super-enzyme-that-absolutely-ravages-plastic-bottles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bacteria cocktail eats plastic six times faster than any other bug.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A newly discovered \u201csuper-enzyme\u201d could finally mean effective recycling of plastic bottles and other materials, scientists say. The plastic-eating bacteria can digest plastic six times faster than current methods of chemically breaking it down.<\/p>\n<p>DIVE DEEPER. Read best-in-class military features and get unlimited access to Pop Mech, starting now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bacteria cocktail eats plastic six times faster than any other bug. A newly discovered \u201csuper-enzyme\u201d could finally mean effective recycling of plastic bottles and other materials, scientists say. The plastic-eating bacteria can digest plastic six times faster than current methods of chemically breaking it down. DIVE DEEPER. Read best-in-class military features and get unlimited [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-military","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113773","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}