{"id":121893,"date":"2021-04-24T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/scientists-develop-truly-biodegradable-plastics"},"modified":"2021-04-24T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T15:22:20","slug":"scientists-develop-truly-biodegradable-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/scientists-develop-truly-biodegradable-plastics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Develop Truly Biodegradable Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-truly-biodegradable-plastics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While biodegradable plastics have been touted as a solution to plastic pollution, in practice they don\u2019t work as advertised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiodegradability does not equal compostability,\u201d Ting Xu, study coauthor and UC Berkeley polymer scientist, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/plastic-compost-new-enzyme-technique-biodegradable\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But by studying nature, Xu and her team have developed a process that actually breaks down biodegradable plastics with just heat and water in a period of weeks. The results, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03408-3.epdf?sharing_token=Dhh1R2KfQJV9GP3w1_rlY9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PUayo1-8AZlc7I_CO2BCNHpVdS1TwcadDdwJXKJMZeRqpNgnsxwjDTuBbfZ91WteuaLXhfc-HIeusx4n_lxqndNNprL5rz53FQL3vGhaCD4Id9LXSlD44W6xcPPyqjOWY%3D\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nature<\/a> on Wednesday, could be game-changing for the plastic pollution problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While biodegradable plastics have been touted as a solution to plastic pollution, in practice they don\u2019t work as advertised. \u201cBiodegradability does not equal compostability,\u201d Ting Xu, study coauthor and UC Berkeley polymer scientist, told Science News. But by studying nature, Xu and her team have developed a process that actually breaks down biodegradable plastics with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121893","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}