{"id":7331,"date":"2018-04-17T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T11:22:47","slug":"lsu-professor-creates-biodegradable-mardi-gras-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/lsu-professor-creates-biodegradable-mardi-gras-beads.html","title":{"rendered":"LSU professor creates biodegradable Mardi Gras beads"},"content":{"rendered":"

An accidental discovery by an LSU professor could help Mardi Gras “go green.”<\/p>\n

Every year tens of thousands of plastic beads end up on the street and eventually make their way to landfills. It’s not environmentally friendly, but that could change.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

LSU Biological Sciences Professor Dr. Naohiro Kato has come up with an innovative way to make biodegradable Mardi Gras beads. Kato says it happened really by accident three years ago when one of his graduate students forgot to place a lab experiment of algae in the refrigerator overnight. Kato noticed the algae making oils, which he thought could be used to make the biodegradable beads. The bio-plastic blend will eventually disintegrate in the soil.<\/p>\n

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An accidental discovery by an LSU professor could help Mardi Gras “go green.” Every year tens of thousands of plastic beads end up on the street and eventually make their way to landfills. It’s not environmentally friendly, but that could change.\u00a0 LSU Biological Sciences Professor Dr. Naohiro Kato has come up with an innovative way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,618,615,576],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-non-fuel-products","category-innovations","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7333,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions\/7333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}