{"id":27166,"date":"2023-04-16T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=27166"},"modified":"2023-04-16T23:50:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T03:50:26","slug":"tough-plastics-broken-down-by-backyard-fungi-in-140-days-experiment-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=27166","title":{"rendered":"Tough plastics broken down by backyard fungi in 140 days, experiment finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/9eae6257344a4c4de1c75a1d367d4678?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1701&amp;cropW=3024&amp;xPos=0&amp;yPos=2175&amp;width=862&amp;height=485\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"165\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Two types of fungi commonly found in backyards can be used to break down one of the world&#8217;s most stubborn plastics \u2014 and scientists say this discovery could be a significant step in addressing the recycling crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-04-15\/plastic-eating-fungi-discovery-raises-hopes-for-recycling-crisis\/102219310\">Tough plastics broken down by backyard fungi in 140 days, experiment finds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two types of fungi commonly found in backyards can be used to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[314,266,163],"class_list":["post-27166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-fungi","tag-maybe-good","tag-plastic","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}