{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Invent","title":"How to Eat Plastic","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d1240796\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":372,"description":"We made a material so good at lasting that nothing alive could eat it. That was the design. We wanted it. We got it.\nThen, in a puddle outside a recycling plant in Japan, something ate it anyway.\nI've watched plastic wash up on three shorelines — Lima, San Francisco, the Great Barrier Reef — and every time I thought the same thing everybody thinks. That's permanent now. That's just the world we made.\nI was wrong, and not about the plastic.\n\nIn 2016 two scientists in Japan didn't ask how to build something that could eat PET. They asked whether anything was eating it already —and if so, where it would be.\n\nThen they went and looked.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BeSEWNNfEz143fwgRLVDCNiBdzLkM6CAC-naADQZqQA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85ZDdk/ZDk5ZWE5NjdmYTBi/YzMxNWFmZGE5ZWQy/NDkyMy5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}