{"id":181693,"date":"2024-01-30T08:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/engineered-bacteria-eat-waste-plastic-and-make-spider-silk-natures-kevlar"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:23:17","slug":"engineered-bacteria-eat-waste-plastic-and-make-spider-silk-natures-kevlar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/engineered-bacteria-eat-waste-plastic-and-make-spider-silk-natures-kevlar","title":{"rendered":"Engineered Bacteria Eat Waste Plastic and Make Spider Silk \u2014 \u201cNature\u2019s Kevlar\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineered-bacteria-eat-waste-plastic-and-make-spider-silk-natures-kevlar2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have used bacteria to \u201cupcycle\u201d waste polyethylene.<\/p>\n<p>Move over Spider-Man: Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a strain of bacteria that can turn plastic waste into a biodegradable spider silk with multiple uses.<\/p>\n<p>Transforming Plastic Into Protein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have used bacteria to \u201cupcycle\u201d waste polyethylene. Move over Spider-Man: Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a strain of bacteria that can turn plastic waste into a biodegradable spider silk with multiple uses. Transforming Plastic Into Protein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181693","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}