{"id":16811,"date":"2013-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130806-03n"},"modified":"2013-08-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T22:00:00","slug":"metabolix-engineers-plants-to-make-cheaper-cleaner-bioplastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/metabolix-engineers-plants-to-make-cheaper-cleaner-bioplastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Metabolix engineers plants to make cheaper, cleaner bioplastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A company called Metabolix, based in Cambridge (MA), has been working on a technology to genetically engineer plants such as switchgrass to create a biodegradable polymer that can be extracted directly from the plant.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The research is focused on a polymer called polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), which is part of the polyhydroxyalkanoate polymer (PHA) family of biopolymers that Metabolix already supplies to plastics manufacturers. The new plant-based process is potentially cheaper and requires less equipment, Metabolix says.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/metabolix-bioplastic-switchgrass\/28578\/\" >www.gizmag.com\/metabolix-bioplastic-switchgrass\/28578\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: carbon footprint, PHB, CO2, injection molding, renewable energy<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A company called Metabolix, based in Cambridge (MA), has been working on a technology to genetically engineer plants such as switchgrass to create a biodegradable<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[194,11236],"class_list":["post-16811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-metabolix","supplier-u-s-department-of-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16811"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}