{"id":763241,"date":"2023-08-16T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T18:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=763241"},"modified":"2023-08-16T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T18:38:02","slug":"microplastic-pollution-new-device-uses-wood-dust-to-trap-up-to-99-9-of-microplastics-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=763241","title":{"rendered":"Microplastic pollution: New device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9% of microplastics in water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could plants be the answer to the looming threat of microplastic pollution? Scientists at UBC&#8217;s BioProducts Institute found that if you add tannins\u2014natural plant compounds that make your mouth pucker if you bite into an unripe fruit\u2014to a layer of wood dust, you can create a filter that traps virtually all microplastic particles present in water.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-08-microplastic-pollution-device-wood-microplastics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microplastic pollution: New device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9% of microplastics in water<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could plants be the answer to the looming threat of microplastic pollution? Scientists at UBC&#8217;s BioProducts Institute found that if you add tannins\u2014natural plant compounds that make your mouth pucker&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-763241","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\/763241","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=763241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763241\/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=763241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}