[ExI] Fungi eat plastic and can survive without oxygen; may clean ocean and landfills

[John Grigg]

"A group of students from Yale's Department of Molecular Physics and
Biochemistry traveled to Ecuador and found a fungus that wants to eat
polyurethane.  This new type of fungus can digest polyurethane in two
weeks, rather than the 1,000 years it would take just sitting around."

"It's the first fungus ever found to survive on only polyurethane, no
oxygen needed, which is why they want to use it at the bottom of landfills."


https://www.minds.com/blog/view/428263953315926016/fungi-eat-plastic-and-can-survive-without-oxygen-may-clean-ocean-and-landfills


John  :  )
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