A student may have found a solution to one of the world’s most urgent environmental crises – breeding bacteria capable of “eating” plastic and potentially breaking it down into harmless by-products. The microbes degrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET) – one of the world’s most common plastics.

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Submitted June 30, 2018 at 04:04PM by madazzahatter https://ift.tt/2ySYF8S