How Plastic-Eating Bacteria Could Help Solve Waste Crisis miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bacterium may help answer mystery of missing plastic in the seas | Research chemistryworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chemistryworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic. This has been shown in laboratory experiments by PhD student Maaike Goudriaan at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NI .