Do you have any information about bacteria that can effectively digest plastic?

Posted by Admin on July 11th, 2010

There was a news article recently about bacteria that biodegrade plastic — an environmentalist dream come true! Does anyone know the details?

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One Response to “Do you have any information about bacteria that can effectively digest plastic?”

1. crownprincess says:

   July 11, 2010 at 9:41 am

   Yup, it says that the biologists at the University College Dublin in Ireland have found that a strain of Pseudomonas putida can exist quite happily on a diet of pure styrene oil–the oil remnant of superheated Styrofoam–and, in the process, turn the environmental problem into a useful, biodegradable plastic.

   check this sites:

   http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bacteria-turn-styrofoam-i –

   http://www.livescience.com/technology/060307_styrofoam_cup.html

   http://www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/wassenaar.html