{"id":149756,"date":"2022-11-09T01:25:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T07:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-engineer-bacteria-to-recycle-plastic-waste-into-valuable-chemicals"},"modified":"2022-11-09T01:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T07:25:14","slug":"scientists-engineer-bacteria-to-recycle-plastic-waste-into-valuable-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-engineer-bacteria-to-recycle-plastic-waste-into-valuable-chemicals","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Recycle Plastic Waste Into Valuable Chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-engineer-bacteria-to-recycle-plastic-waste-into-valuable-chemicals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plastic waste is clogging up our rivers and oceans and causing long-lasting environmental damage that is only just starting to come into focus. But a new approach that combines biological and chemical processes could greatly simplify the process of recycling it.<\/p>\n<p>While much of the plastic we use carries symbols indicating it can be recycled, and authorities around the world make a big show about doing so, the reality is that it\u2019s easier said than done. Most recycling processes only work on a single type of plastic, but our waste streams are made up of a complex mixture that can be difficult and expensive to separate.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, most current chemical recycling processes produce end products of significantly worse quality that can\u2019t be recycled themselves, which means we\u2019re still a long way from the goal of a circular economy when it comes to plastics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic waste is clogging up our rivers and oceans and causing long-lasting environmental damage that is only just starting to come into focus. But a new approach that combines biological and chemical processes could greatly simplify the process of recycling it. While much of the plastic we use carries symbols indicating it can be recycled, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,39,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-economics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149756","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}