{"id":670189,"date":"2020-10-16T06:38:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670189"},"modified":"2020-10-16T06:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T10:38:13","slug":"a-first-of-its-kind-catalyst-mimics-natural-processes-to-break-down-plastic-and-produce-valuable-new-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670189","title":{"rendered":"A first-of-its-kind catalyst mimics natural processes to break down plastic and produce valuable new products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While plastics recycling is not new science, current processes don&#8217;t make it economically worthwhile\u2014 waste plastics get &#8220;down-cycled&#8221; into lower grade, less useful material. It&#8217;s a challenge that continues to be an obstacle in tackling a growing global pollution crisis in single use plastics.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-first-of-its-kind-catalyst-mimics-natural-plastic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">A first-of-its-kind catalyst mimics natural processes to break down plastic and produce valuable new products<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While plastics recycling is not new science, current processes don&#8217;t make it economically worthwhile\u2014 waste plastics get &#8220;down-cycled&#8221; into lower grade, less useful material. It&#8217;s a challenge that continues to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}