{"id":82594,"date":"2018-09-15T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T08:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/mushrooms-could-solve-the-war-on-plastic-says-kew-gardens"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:02:26","slug":"mushrooms-could-solve-the-war-on-plastic-says-kew-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/mushrooms-could-solve-the-war-on-plastic-says-kew-gardens","title":{"rendered":"Mushrooms could solve the war on plastic, says Kew Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mushrooms-could-solve-the-war-on-plastic-says-kew-gardens.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fungi could be the key to winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/plastic-ban\/\">war on plastic<\/a>, leading scientists at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/kew-gardens\/\">Kew Gardens<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n<p>The first ever report on the state of the world\u2019s fungi has today revealed that if the natural properties of fungus can be harnessed and developed, plastic could be broken down naturally in weeks rather than years.<\/p>\n<p>Kew Gardens and a team of over 100 scientists from 18 countries have compiled the paper, which shows how different organisms can decompose plastics, clean up radioactive material and even speed up the production of biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/09\/12\/mushrooms-could-solve-war-plastic-says-kew-gardens\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/09\/12\/mushrooms-could-...w-gardens\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fungi could be the key to winning the war on plastic, leading scientists at Kew Gardens has said. The first ever report on the state of the world\u2019s fungi has today revealed that if the natural properties of fungus can be harnessed and developed, plastic could be broken down naturally in weeks rather than years. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82594","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82610,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82594\/revisions\/82610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}