{"id":190541,"date":"2024-06-03T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-claim-new-enzyme-can-break-down-plastic-in-a-single-week"},"modified":"2024-06-03T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:22:26","slug":"scientists-claim-new-enzyme-can-break-down-plastic-in-a-single-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-claim-new-enzyme-can-break-down-plastic-in-a-single-week","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Claim New Enzyme Can Break Down Plastic in a Single Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-claim-new-enzyme-can-break-down-plastic-in-a-single-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists used machine learning to discover what they say could be a new way to speed up the process of breaking down plastic significantly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/akvm5b\/scientists-discover-method-to-break-down-plastic-in-one-week-not-centuries\" class=\"\"><em>Vice<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04599-z.epdf?sharing_token=pt-lyCfsVz-vWUg2UhEmHdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PeM6vTlVbebxCLhUAccDhih8V4_cqS0rGjHMFDcwcLPr3TrEYHSIRWQPTlggBJssazfgarW-eAp6_n6IBzHJAINU80-AKubUPPe35E214flsXg_z5HQHrRT7w3GzJbISk44XIldkQQCvjJGQE-1pUwC6EyNVIRBZyfDRdBqB445g%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.vice.com\" class=\"\">new paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>, a research team from the University of Texas at Austin modified an enzyme to break down the individual components of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a commonly used plastic that makes up a staggering 12 percent of global waste.<\/p>\n<p>Impressively, the modified enzyme also reduced the amount of time it takes for the plastic to degrade from months to a just single week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists used machine learning to discover what they say could be a new way to speed up the process of breaking down plastic significantly, Vice reports. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature, a research team from the University of Texas at Austin modified an enzyme to break down the individual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190541","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}