{"id":694973,"date":"2021-07-02T03:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694973"},"modified":"2021-07-02T03:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:22:22","slug":"microbes-in-cow-stomachs-can-break-down-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694973","title":{"rendered":"Microbes in cow stomachs can break down plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic is notoriously hard to break down, but researchers in Austria have found that bacteria from a cow&#8217;s rumen\u2014one of the four compartments of its stomach\u2014can digest certain types of the ubiquitous material, representing a sustainable way to reduce plastic litter.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-07-microbes-cow-stomachs-plastic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Microbes in cow stomachs can break down plastic<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic is notoriously hard to break down, but researchers in Austria have found that bacteria from a cow&#8217;s rumen\u2014one of the four compartments of its stomach\u2014can digest certain types of&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-694973","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\/694973","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=694973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694973\/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=694973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}