{"id":6711,"date":"2023-03-27T05:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:02:16","slug":"biotransformation-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/biotransformation-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Biotransformation Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Biotransformation Technology:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Biotransformation technology is a process which <strong>alters the state of plastics<\/strong> and makes them <strong>biodegradable.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The technology would digest the plastic packaging waste naturally <strong>with the help of microbes <\/strong>without leaving behind any microplastics.<\/li>\n<li>It ensures that plastic which escaped refuse streams is fully biodegraded in the natural environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is the Process involved?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Plastics made using this technology are given a pre-programmed time during which it looks and functions like conventional plastics.<\/li>\n<li>After expiry and exposure to the external environment, it self-destructs and <strong>biotransforms into bioavailable wax.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This wax is then consumed by microorganisms, converting waste into water, CO2, and biomass.<\/li>\n<li>The technology attacks the crystalline and amorphous region of the polymer structure, rapidly turning it into a wax-like material.<\/li>\n<li>This wax-like material is no longer plastic and is not harmful to the environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Microbes?<\/h3>\n<p>Microbes are tiny, single-celled organisms that cannot be seen with the human eye. They are also referred to as microscopic organisms because a microscope is the only way to see them. They account for roughly 60% of all living things on earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/explained-what-is-biotransformation-technology\/article66656794.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Explained | What is Biotransformation technology<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biotransformation technology is a process which alters the state of plastics and makes them biodegradable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}