{"id":31382,"date":"2026-11-12T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/12\/scientists-discover-a-powerful-plastic-eating-enzyme-hiding-in-an-ordinary-compost-heap\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:01:18","slug":"scientists-discover-a-powerful-plastic-eating-enzyme-hiding-in-an-ordinary-compost-heap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/12\/scientists-discover-a-powerful-plastic-eating-enzyme-hiding-in-an-ordinary-compost-heap\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover a Powerful Plastic-Eating Enzyme Hiding in an Ordinary Compost Heap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-discover-a-powerful-plastic-eating-enzyme-hiding-in-an-ordinary-compost-heap\/\" title=\"Scientists Discover a Powerful Plastic-Eating Enzyme Hiding in an Ordinary Compost Heap\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Wax-Moth-Larva-777x467.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wax Moth Larva\" \/><\/a>An enzyme found in compost broke down small amounts of polyurethane foam in laboratory tests, offering an early lead toward gentler ways to recycle a stubborn plastic. The polyurethane used in mattress foam, shoe soles, and refrigerator insulation is notoriously difficult to recycle on an industrial scale. A very large share of the millions of [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enzyme found in compost broke down small amounts of polyurethane foam in laboratory tests, offering an early lead toward gentler ways to recycle a stubborn plastic. The polyurethane used in mattress foam, shoe soles, and refrigerator insulation is notoriously difficult to recycle on an industrial scale. A very large share of the millions of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/12\/scientists-discover-a-powerful-plastic-eating-enzyme-hiding-in-an-ordinary-compost-heap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientists Discover a Powerful Plastic-Eating Enzyme Hiding in an Ordinary Compost Heap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}