{"id":2878,"date":"2015-11-07T01:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T08:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2015-11-07T01:52:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T08:52:58","slug":"these-plastic-eating-worms-could-be-the-solution-to-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2015\/11\/07\/these-plastic-eating-worms-could-be-the-solution-to-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bio-Degradation of Plastics Really a Good Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to conventional wisdom (as expressed in &#8216;Seriously,Science?&#8217; at discovermagazine.com):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We all know that plastic is generally terrible for the environment because it doesn\u2019t biodegrade, and just sits in landfills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif;\">But why is having carbon locked up in relatively small known locations (rather than oxidized and maybe even methanized into the atmosphere and\/or distributed widely in micro-particles of unknown toxicity) to be considered as &#8220;<i>generally terrible for the environment<\/i>&#8220;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/seriouslyscience\/2015\/11\/05\/these-plastic-eating-worms-could-be-the-solution-to-pollution\/\">These plastic-eating worms could be the solution to pollution.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to conventional wisdom (as expressed in &#8216;Seriously,Science?&#8217; at discovermagazine.com): We all know that plastic is generally terrible for the environment because it doesn\u2019t biodegrade, and just sits in landfills. But why is having carbon locked up in relatively small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2015\/11\/07\/these-plastic-eating-worms-could-be-the-solution-to-pollution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}