{"id":220002,"date":"2025-08-13T04:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-invent-plastic-that-nature-eats-2800-feet-underwater"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:16:20","slug":"scientists-invent-plastic-that-nature-eats-2800-feet-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-invent-plastic-that-nature-eats-2800-feet-underwater","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Invent Plastic That Nature Eats 2,800 Feet Underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invent-plastic-that-nature-eats-2800-feet-underwater2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have unveiled a new biodegradable plastic that vanishes in one of the harshest environments on Earth\u2014the deep sea.<\/p>\n<p>In an experiment nearly 3,000 feet underwater, a bioengineered material called LAHB broke down while conventional plastics stayed intact. Deep-sea microbes not only colonized the plastic\u2019s surface, but actively digested it using specialized enzymes, turning it into harmless byproducts. This breakthrough suggests a promising solution to the global plastic crisis, especially in oceans where most waste lingers for decades or centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Global plastic waste problem still looms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have unveiled a new biodegradable plastic that vanishes in one of the harshest environments on Earth\u2014the deep sea. In an experiment nearly 3,000 feet underwater, a bioengineered material called LAHB broke down while conventional plastics stayed intact. Deep-sea microbes not only colonized the plastic\u2019s surface, but actively digested it using specialized enzymes, turning it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220002","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}