Cows Have Hungry Stomach Microbes Capable of Breaking Down Some Plastics
NICOLETTA LANESE, LIVESCIENCE
3 JULY 2021
Microbes fished from the stomachs of cows can gobble up certain kinds of plastic, including the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) used in soda bottles, food packaging, and synthetic fabrics.
Scientists uncovered these microbes in liquid that was drawn from the rumen, the largest compartment of a ruminant s stomach; ruminants include hooved animals like cattle and sheep, which rely on microorganisms to help break down their diet of coarse vegetation.
The rumen acts as an incubator for these microbes, which either digest or ferment foods consumed by a cow or other ruminant, according to the University of Minnesota.
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Microbes fished from the stomachs of cows can gobble up certain kinds of plastic, including the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) used in soda bottles, food packaging and synthetic fabrics.
Scientists uncovered these microbes in liquid that was drawn from the rumen, the largest compartment of a ruminant s
stomach; ruminants include hooved animals like cattle and sheep, which rely on microorganisms to help break down their diet of coarse vegetation. The rumen acts as an incubator for these microbes, which either digest or ferment foods consumed by a cow or other ruminant, according to the
University of Minnesota. The researchers suspected that some microbes lurking in a cow s rumen should be capable of digesting polyesters, substances whose component molecules are linked by so-called ester groups.
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Manitoba has dropped further down the rankings of the Fraser Institute’s annual ranking of mining companies.
Manitoba has dropped further down the rankings of the Fraser Institute’s annual ranking of mining companies.
After reaching lofty heights of No. 2 in 2016 in the investment attractiveness index out of 104 international jurisdictions the Fraser Institute ranks Canadian provinces, and Australian and U.S. states individually this year Manitoba is a humbling 37th.
It has been falling steadily for the past few years, ranking 34th last year after first reaching the top 10 in 2014.
While the whole industry has been suffering from depressed commodity prices, the fact is that Manitoba was only ranked higher than Nova Scotia, Nunavut and Northwest Territories among Canadian jurisdictions this year.
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Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada are expected to arrive in Pukatawagan today to lead the probe into the fatal plane crash yesterday that killed a 56-year-old man from Opaskwayak Cree Nation.
The passenger was killed when a small commercial aircraft went off the end of the 3,000-foot crushed rock surface runway around 4 p.m. and there was an ensuing fire, RCMP said.
The Manitoba Department of Infrastructure and Transportation s Northern Airports and Marine Operations division operate the Pukatawagan Airport (ZFG).
Pukatawagan is about 210 kilometres north of The Pas.
Sgt. Line Karpish, an RCMP media spokesperson for D Division in Winnipeg, said there were eight passengers and a pilot on board the aircraft.