{"id":77880,"date":"2018-04-17T06:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-accidentally-discovered-a-mutant-enzyme-that-could-help-the-world-eliminate-plastic-waste"},"modified":"2018-04-17T06:42:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:42:20","slug":"scientists-accidentally-discovered-a-mutant-enzyme-that-could-help-the-world-eliminate-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-accidentally-discovered-a-mutant-enzyme-that-could-help-the-world-eliminate-plastic-waste","title":{"rendered":"Scientists accidentally discovered a mutant enzyme that could help the world eliminate plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-accidentally-discovered-a-mutant-enzyme-that-could-help-the-world-eliminate-plastic-waste.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the US and UK examined an existing enzyme which had occurred naturally in landfill sites and was able to slowly digest man-made plastics.<\/p>\n<p>But in the course of testing the enzyme\u2019s origins, the researchers made biological changes to it that turbo-charged its ability to digest plastics, according to Britain\u2019s University of Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Guardian, the enzyme starts breaking down plastic in a matter of days, a process which would take centuries under normal conditions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scientists-accidentally-discover-mutant-enzyme-that-decomposes-plastic-2018-4\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scientists-accidentally-disco...2018&#45;4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the US and UK examined an existing enzyme which had occurred naturally in landfill sites and was able to slowly digest man-made plastics. But in the course of testing the enzyme\u2019s origins, the researchers made biological changes to it that turbo-charged its ability to digest plastics, according to Britain\u2019s University of Portsmouth. According [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77880","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\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}