{"id":168601,"date":"2023-07-29T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/wood-munching-fungi-can-break-down-common-type-of-plastic"},"modified":"2023-07-29T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:35:50","slug":"wood-munching-fungi-can-break-down-common-type-of-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/wood-munching-fungi-can-break-down-common-type-of-plastic","title":{"rendered":"Wood-munching fungi can break down common type of plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wood-munching-fungi-can-break-down-common-type-of-plastic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fungi isolated from rotting hardwood trees can break down sheets of low-density polyethylene, one of the most abundant plastics on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/chen-ly\/\" class=\"\">Chen Ly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fungi isolated from rotting hardwood trees can break down sheets of low-density polyethylene, one of the most abundant plastics on Earth. By Chen Ly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168601","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}