{"id":197607,"date":"2024-10-13T17:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/wastewater-bacteria-can-break-down-plastic-for-food"},"modified":"2024-10-13T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T22:22:24","slug":"wastewater-bacteria-can-break-down-plastic-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/wastewater-bacteria-can-break-down-plastic-for-food","title":{"rendered":"Wastewater bacteria can break down plastic for food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wastewater-bacteria-can-break-down-plastic-for-food2.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.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Finding could lead to bioengineering solutions to clean up plastic waste.<\/p>\n<p>A new study finds that a common bacterium can break down plastic for food, opening new possibilities for bacteria-based engineering solutions to help clean up plastic waste. Illustration credit Ludmilla Aristilde\/Northwestern University.<\/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. Finding could lead to bioengineering solutions to clean up plastic waste. A new study finds that a common bacterium can break down plastic for food, opening new possibilities for bacteria-based engineering solutions to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197607","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}