Scientists: This bacteria can eat plastic trash

We produce 311 million tons of plastic each year, yet just a tenth of that will be sent to a recycling plant.

This could help: Japanese scientists say they’ve discovered the first known bacteria able to break the molecular bonds of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, one of the world’s most common forms of plastic.

USA Today Network Arden Dier

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