#decomposing plastic

[freakyforfungi]

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now polyurethane has been considered non-biodegradable, but a group of students from Yale University in the US has found fungi that will not only eat and digest it, they will do so even in the absence of oxygen.

Pestalotiopsis microspora

 “A species of endophytic fungus capable of breaking down and digesting polyurethane. Originally identified in fallen foliage of common ivy in Buenos Aires”