{"id":137909,"date":"2022-04-09T23:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T04:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-transformed-plastic-bottles-into-edible-material-using-bacteria"},"modified":"2022-04-09T23:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T04:02:29","slug":"scientists-transformed-plastic-bottles-into-edible-material-using-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-transformed-plastic-bottles-into-edible-material-using-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Transformed Plastic Bottles Into Edible Material Using Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-transformed-plastic-bottles-into-edible-material-using-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We produce more than 380 million tonnes of plastic every year, with over 8 million tons of plastic waste escaping into our oceans. Scientists have come up with a creative solution to address this growing plastic problem, and the best thing is that their solution smells and tastes divine.<\/p>\n<p>By getting help from a genetically modified bacteria, a team of researchers at the University of Edinburgh was able to turn plastic bottles into vanilla flavoring. This is the first time a valuable chemical has been achieved from plastic waste.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2021\/gc\/d1gc00931a#!divAbstract\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Green Chemistry<\/em><\/a>, explains how bacteria may be used to transform plastic into vanillin, a compound that is used not just in food, but also in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We produce more than 380 million tonnes of plastic every year, with over 8 million tons of plastic waste escaping into our oceans. Scientists have come up with a creative solution to address this growing plastic problem, and the best thing is that their solution smells and tastes divine. By getting help from a genetically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137909","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}