{"id":736475,"date":"2022-09-29T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736475"},"modified":"2022-09-29T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T18:00:08","slug":"process-converts-polyethylene-bags-plastics-to-polymer-building-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736475","title":{"rendered":"Process converts polyethylene bags, plastics to polymer building blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polyethylene plastics\u2014in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape\u2014are notoriously hard to recycle. They&#8217;re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they&#8217;re recycled at all, they&#8217;re melted into a polymer stew useful mostly for decking and other low-value products.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-09-polyethylene-bags-plastics-polymer-blocks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Process converts polyethylene bags, plastics to polymer building blocks<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyethylene plastics\u2014in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape\u2014are notoriously hard to recycle. They&#8217;re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they&#8217;re recycled at all, they&#8217;re melted&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-736475","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\/736475","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=736475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736475\/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=736475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}