Oct 2, 2020
Some bacteria have naturally evolved the ability to eat plastic. In 2016, a plastic-eating bug was discovered by scientists at a Japanese waste site. A separate team of Portsmouth researchers then took the bug to their lab in the UK. They wanted to see if it could be used to...
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