{"id":173275,"date":"2023-10-02T01:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T06:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/we-are-just-getting-started-the-plastic-eating-bacteria-that-could-change-the-world"},"modified":"2023-10-02T01:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T06:24:45","slug":"we-are-just-getting-started-the-plastic-eating-bacteria-that-could-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/we-are-just-getting-started-the-plastic-eating-bacteria-that-could-change-the-world","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are just getting started\u2019: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-are-just-getting-started-the-plastic-eating-bacteria-that-could-change-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do we feel about this Lifeboat?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The long read: When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we feel about this Lifeboat? The long read: When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173275","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}