These Bacteria Eat Plastic Waste—and Then Transform It Into Useful Products
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The first time I heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I thought it was a bad joke. My incredulity soon turned to horror…
The first time I heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I thought it was a bad joke. My incredulity soon turned to horror…
The invention of plastic improved human lives in many ways, but it has also created a lot of waste. Plastic waste can take…
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Millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans every year. The constant growth of global plastic production along with the lack…
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Enlarge (credit: Yagi Studio | Getty Images) Since the first factories began manufacturing polyester from petroleum in…
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Countless potentially useful enzymes are hidden all around us. NTNU researchers have developed a new method that could help us…
Le temps qu'ils mettent à se dégrader est l'une des principales causes des dommages causés à l'environnement par les plastiques…
Two amino acid substitution can switch a canonical cutinase to a PET hydrolytic enzyme.
Read the full story at Massive Science. Plastic is everywhere. Scientists have found tiny bits of microplastic even in the…
Plastic. This simple yet ingenious material literally changed our lives. Have a look around you, and you’ll notice that most…
Microplastic pollution is currently at the forefront of public interest in environmental science, with widespread effort to…
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“Spent all these days in my laboratory and found many interesting things,” wrote Belgian-American chemist Leon Baekeland in his…
The end result of the reaction is a raw material that can be reused in new products.
Enlarge (credit: Orange County NC ) Plastics have a lot of properties that have made them fixtures of modern societies. They…
Some “food” doesn’t have much nutritional value… and this is certainly true of plastic! Some bug larvae seem to be eating…
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NewsA study on the structure of an enzyme to degrade PET was published March of 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy…
A dump truck’s worth of plastic empties into the ocean every minute. Worldwide, humankind produces over 300 million
Illustration: Erica…
Emily Flashman, Research Fellow in Enzymology, University of…
Thanks to a genetically engineered enzyme, a bug that eats plastic bottles developed a much bigger appetite for our rubbish. It…
"Serendipity often plays a significant role in fundamental scientific research and our discovery here is no exception." - John…
You might call it a happy accident: As environmentalists urge the world to address the plastic pollution crisis, a team of…
Cientistas norte-americanos e britânicos melhoraram uma enzima que é capaz de digerir alguns tipos de plástico, o que pode…
Polyester polyurethane makes a delicious meal for the Aspergillus tubingensis fungus, offering a potential solution to some of…
This episode: Newly discovered bacteria can break down especially long-lived type of plastic! Download Episode (6.4 MB, 7…
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It is estimated that we dump around 8.8 million tons of plastic into the world's oceans every single year, and approximately…
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Researchers have isolated a bacterial strain that uses PET plastic, one of the main culprits of environmental pollution, as its…
by Christoph Weigel Figure 1. Plastic Beach near Hirtshals, Denmark. CC BY 2.0 Kai…
(credit: AJC Photography) Plastics are everywhere. Once they get into the environment as trash, they stay there for years…
Ein Forschungsteam aus Japan beschreibt den ersten bekannten Mikroorganismus, der in der Lage ist, den Kunststoff PET abzubauen…
The world’s oceans are filled with plastic. More than 5 million pieces of it are floating around, being eaten by fish and…
There’s an estimated 311 million tons of plastic (pdf) produced every year across the world. There will be more plastic than…
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Posting from the airport – flying home to my folks for a week. I will try to keep you all updated, though! Fecal microbiota…
Japanese researchers discovered a bacterium that eats polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the stuff used to make plenty of single-u…
A team of scientists from Kyoto Institute of Technology and Keio University has discovered the only known species of bacteria…
Environment Photo credit: Chomp on this. recycleharmony/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The world churns out 311…
Japanese researchers have identified a bacteria that eats PET, a kind of plastic widely employed for bottles. This is the first…
According to a group of biologists in Japan, the newfound species — named Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 — breaks down the plastic…
I ricercatori hanno identificato un batterio, chiamato Ideonella sakaiensis, capace di degradare la plastica e di mangiarla nel…
Forscher haben Bakterien entdeckt, die das Plastik-Recycling revolutionieren könnten. Sie fressen sich durch den Kunststoff und…
Hundreds of millions of tons of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic are produced each year to package everything from…