Newly discovered plastic-eating bacteria could be the key to combating landfill waste

[Guest Brad Reed]

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While the amount of plastic we recycle has grown significantly over the past couple of decades, we're still throwing far too many plastic bottles in the trash where they will end up as landfill waste. But what if there were a way to dissolve these bottles naturally even after they'd been dumped into a landfill? A newly discovered plastic-eating bacteria has the promise to do just that, although we're still a long way from knowing just how effective it would be if deployed on a large scale.

 

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