{"id":197018,"date":"2024-10-04T07:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/wastewater-bacteria-can-break-down-plastic-for-food-yielding-new-possibilities-for-cleaning-up-plastic-waste"},"modified":"2024-10-04T07:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T12:22:38","slug":"wastewater-bacteria-can-break-down-plastic-for-food-yielding-new-possibilities-for-cleaning-up-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/wastewater-bacteria-can-break-down-plastic-for-food-yielding-new-possibilities-for-cleaning-up-plastic-waste","title":{"rendered":"Wastewater bacteria can break down plastic for food, yielding new possibilities for cleaning up plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wastewater-bacteria-can-break-down-plastic-for-food-yielding-new-possibilities-for-cleaning-up-plastic-waste2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have long observed that a common family of environmental bacteria, Comamonadacae, grow on plastics littered throughout urban rivers and wastewater systems. But exactly what these Comamonas bacteria are doing has remained a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have long observed that a common family of environmental bacteria, Comamonadacae, grow on plastics littered throughout urban rivers and wastewater systems. But exactly what these Comamonas bacteria are doing has remained a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197018","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}