{"id":2387,"date":"2025-01-24T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:31:52","slug":"research-offers-biogradeable-alternative-to-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/research-offers-biogradeable-alternative-to-microplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Offers Biogradeable Alternative to Microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny plastic beads that are added to some cleansers and beauty products add to the plastic waste that is engulfing our world.\u00a0 However, researchers at MIT have developed a class of biodegradable materials that could replace those beads, break down the beads into harmless sugars and amino acids, and take a giant step toward cleaning our planet.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nA new biodegradable material to replace certain microplastics<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/new-biodegradable-material-could-replace-certain-microplastics-1206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/new-biodegradable-material-could-replace-certain-microplastics-1206<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781642832358\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny plastic beads that are added to some cleansers and beauty products add to the plastic waste that is engulfing our world.\u00a0 However, researchers at MIT have developed a class of biodegradable materials that could replace those beads, break down the beads into harmless sugars and amino acids, and take a giant step toward cleaning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/research-offers-biogradeable-alternative-to-microplastics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Research Offers Biogradeable Alternative to Microplastics&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,25,44,53,55,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-environment","category-food","category-global","category-health","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}