{"id":244739,"date":"2026-10-01T05:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/how-mushrooms-that-eat-plastic-can-help-fight-pollution"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:33:06","slug":"how-mushrooms-that-eat-plastic-can-help-fight-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/how-mushrooms-that-eat-plastic-can-help-fight-pollution","title":{"rendered":"How Mushrooms That Eat Plastic Can Help Fight Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-mushrooms-that-eat-plastic-can-help-fight-pollution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long before there were trees, the Earth was overrun by giant mushrooms. Fungi first showed up over a billion years ago as three-metre-tall fungus fingers that dominated the landscape, while plants have been around for a paltry 700 million years debuting as scruffy shrubs. A billion or so years on, the humble \u2018shroom is an unlikely champion in the war against plastic waste thanks to the discovery of a plastic-eating mushroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>The Marvellous Plastic-Eating Mushroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before there were trees, the Earth was overrun by giant mushrooms. Fungi first showed up over a billion years ago as three-metre-tall fungus fingers that dominated the landscape, while plants have been around for a paltry 700 million years debuting as scruffy shrubs. A billion or so years on, the humble \u2018shroom is an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244739","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=244739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}