{"id":2890,"date":"2025-01-24T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:04:57","slug":"eugene-fletcher-tackles-plastic-pollution-with-biofuel-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2025\/eugene-fletcher-tackles-plastic-pollution-with-biofuel-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Fletcher Tackles Plastic Pollution with Biofuel Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Eugene Fletcher Tackles Plastic Pollution with Biofuel Innovation\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Read about our Assistant professor- <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/eugene-fletcher\/\">Dr. Eugene Fletcher&#8217;s<\/a> work to re-engineer yeast to convert plastic and food waste into biofuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rkVntRiPeI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/challenge.carleton.ca\/transforming-garbage-biofuel-chemicals\/\">Waste Not, Want Not<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Waste Not, Want Not&#8221; &#8212; Challenge What&#039;s Possible\" src=\"https:\/\/challenge.carleton.ca\/transforming-garbage-biofuel-chemicals\/embed\/#?secret=WeEySw5Q7h#?secret=rkVntRiPeI\" data-secret=\"rkVntRiPeI\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/waste-not-want-not-1500x875-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about our Assistant professor- Dr. Eugene Fletcher&#8217;s work to re-engineer yeast to convert plastic and food waste into biofuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}