Scientists are trying to accelerate evolution to make plastics rot. A tiny new organism is showing them how. Sometime between 2010 and 2015, a tiny organism with an unusual appetite made a home in an industrial site near a bottle-recycling plant in Sakai, Japan. The site, located by a bustling port in one of the… Continue reading The race to save the planet from plastic
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Tiny microplastics travel far on the wind
Airborne bits of plastic that originated in cities ended up in pristine mountains at least 95 kilometers away, a study finds. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-microplastics-travel-far-wind4…
Scientists Found an Edible Mushroom that Eats Plastic, and it Could Clean Our Landfills
Elias Marat, TMU Waking Times Whether we like it or not, our society has become completely reliant on plastic. From food preservation to water transportation, computer technology to healthcare and medicine, plastic can be found in nearly every facet of the human experience. But as we well know, plastic is a double-edged sword, with massive… Continue reading Scientists Found an Edible Mushroom that Eats Plastic, and it Could Clean Our Landfills