{"id":191048,"date":"2024-06-12T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T05:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/marine-fungus-can-break-down-floating-plastic-pollution"},"modified":"2024-06-12T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T05:22:57","slug":"marine-fungus-can-break-down-floating-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/marine-fungus-can-break-down-floating-plastic-pollution","title":{"rendered":"Marine fungus can break down floating plastic pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/marine-fungus-can-break-down-floating-plastic-pollution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plastic-digesting capabilities of the fungus <em>Parengyodontium album<\/em> could be harnessed to degrade polyethylene, the most abundant type of plastic in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/adrian-barnett\/\" class=\"\">Adrian Barnett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plastic-digesting capabilities of the fungus Parengyodontium album could be harnessed to degrade polyethylene, the most abundant type of plastic in the ocean. By Adrian Barnett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191048","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}