{"id":85619,"date":"2018-12-08T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T22:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-fungus-that-can-eat-plastic-has-been-discovered-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T22:22:21","slug":"a-fungus-that-can-eat-plastic-has-been-discovered-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-fungus-that-can-eat-plastic-has-been-discovered-in-pakistan","title":{"rendered":"A Fungus That Can \u201cEat\u201d Plastic Has Been Discovered In Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-fungus-that-can-eat-plastic-has-been-discovered-in-pakistan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Luke Miller<\/p>\n<p>A fungus that can \u201ceat\u201d plastic has been discovered in Pakistan. This discovery could tackle the growing plastic problem the planet is currently facing, by cutting the lifespan of plastic from up to 1000 years, to just weeks.<\/p>\n<p>One of the largest environmental problems we are currently facing is plastic. Taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.org.uk\/our-work\/plastic-pollution\/plastic-pollution-facts-figures\/\"> sas.org<\/a> pollution facts and figures:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/truththeory.com\/2018\/12\/05\/a-fungus-that-can-eat-plastic-has-been-discovered-in-pakistan\/\">https:\/\/truththeory.com\/2018\/12\/05\/a-fungus-that-can-eat-pla...-pakistan\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Luke Miller A fungus that can \u201ceat\u201d plastic has been discovered in Pakistan. This discovery could tackle the growing plastic problem the planet is currently facing, by cutting the lifespan of plastic from up to 1000 years, to just weeks. One of the largest environmental problems we are currently facing is plastic. Taken from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85619","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\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}