Plastic-Eating Bacteria Could Help Make Trash Disappear
by The Daily Eye Team March 12 2016, 3:47 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secsA durable plastic called PET is considered a major environmental hazard because it's highly resistant to breakdown. But researchers have found a potential new match for this hardy plastic: a newly discovered microbe that is astonishingly good at eating it. An estimated 342 million tons of plastic are produced annually worldwide, and currently, only about 14 percent is collected for recycling, according to the World Economic Forum.