Plastic-eating bacteria could help recycle waste ‘six times faster’. The University of Portsmouth scientists who re-engineered the plastic-eating enzyme PETase have now created an enzyme “cocktail” which can digest plastic up to six times faster. A second enzyme, found in the same rubbish dwelling bacterium that lives on a diet of plastic bottles, …
4/18/2018 · But scientists recently discovered a strain of bacteria that can literally eat the plastic used to make bottles, and have now improved it to make it work faster. The effects are modest – it’s not a…
3/28/2020 · German researchers have identified a strain of bacterium that not only breaks down toxic plastic, but also uses it as food to fuel the process, according to The Guardian.. The scientists discovered the strain of bacteria , known as pseudomonas bacteria , at a dump site loaded with plastic waste, where they noticed that it was attacking polyurethane.. Polyurethane’s are ubiquitous in plastic …
3/27/2020 · A bacterium that feeds on toxic plastic has been discovered by scientists. The bug not only breaks the plastic down but uses it as food to power the process. The bacterium, which was found at a…
7/1/2019 · Scientists are making progress with better plastic-eating bacteria. Someday engineered organisms might help us do a better job of recycling polymers. By Sarah Scoles.
3/30/2020 · Plastic bags may smell like food to hungry sea turtles, a new study says A group of German researchers identified the bacterium Pseudomonas putida in the soil of a site covered in plastic waste..
Scientists have supercharged how a plastic- eating bacteria gobbles up plastic – and it could help solve the pollution problem.. The bacteria was found in 2016 but now scientists have taken what it …
