Bacteria digest plastic
Texel researchers demonstrate via carbon isotopes that the bacterium Rhodococcus ruber can eat polyethylene.
Researchers at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) have proven for the first time that bacteria can digest plastic into CO2 and other molecules. They developed a method to determine how much plastic microbes process, using carbon isotopes. They published their results in Marine Pollution Bulletin.
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