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Plastic-Eating Fungi May Solve the Earth’s Garbage Problem
Plastic-Eating Fungi May Solve the Earth’s Garbage Problem
A group of students from Yale University have discovered a species of fungi in the Amazon that eats the common plastic polyurethane. And, what's more, Pestalotiopsis microspora can nosh on plastic even in an oxygen-free environment, which makes it perfect to survive in a landfill. There you go! Earth's waste management problem has just been solved! (Not really, but it's a start.)

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