{"id":216,"date":"2026-11-03T20:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:38:31","slug":"scientists-discover-a-plastic-eating-pac-man-enzyme-with-a-surprising-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover a plastic-eating \u201cPac-Man\u201d enzyme with a surprising secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 17px;line-height: 1.8;color: #334155;margin-bottom: 25px\">Scientists have discovered a remarkable \u201cPac-Man enzyme\u201d that helps bacteria devour certain types of plastic and may offer new hope in the fight against plastic pollution. Researchers found that several biodegradable plastics completely broke down in soil within about a year, while conventional plastic remained largely unchanged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/10\/261014015509.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:12px 26px;background:#0f172a;color:#ffffff;font-weight:700;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none\">Read Full Story on Source &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a remarkable \u201cPac-Man enzyme\u201d that helps bacteria devour certain types of plastic and may offer new hope in the fight against plastic pollution. Researchers found that several biodegradable plastics completely broke down in soil within about a year, while conventional plastic remained largely unchanged. Read Full Story on Source &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}