{"id":97054,"date":"2026-02-10T17:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=97054"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:07:59","slug":"professor-develops-revolutionary-solution-to-major-problem-with-common-waste-bridges-a-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_10_2026\/professor-develops-revolutionary-solution-to-major-problem-with-common-waste-bridges-a-gap","title":{"rendered":"Professor Develops Revolutionary Solution to Major Problem with Common Waste: &#8216;Bridges a Gap&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sridhar Viamajala, a professor of bioengineering, is advancing a novel way to recycle polypropylene through his startup company Plastinuva.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecooldown.com%2Fgreen-tech%2Fplastinuva-sustainable-plastic-packaging%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CNicole.Gorny%40UToledo.Edu%7Cb28f3894ed604d7975c108de68db0393%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C639063487824101644%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=LcG7VUWIrJk7EV%2BYKIp9a3InF0FLE73Y87l3aH%2FVhWk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Develops Revolutionary Solution to Major Problem with Common Waste: &#8216;Bridges a Gap&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sridhar Viamajala, a professor of bioengineering, is advancing a novel way to recycle polypropylene through his startup company Plastinuva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[505],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97055,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97054\/revisions\/97055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}