phroyd: SCIENTISTS FIND MUSHROOM THAT EATS ETERNAL PLASTIC - Environment UrgencyPolyurethane is
phroyd: SCIENTISTS FIND MUSHROOM THAT EATS ETERNAL PLASTIC - Environment UrgencyPolyurethane is one of the most commonly used plastics in different types of products, but it’s also one that takes an extremely long period of time before it can be broken down. If left to sit, it will happily remain intact for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Some scientists have gone so far as to postulate that, in a thousand years, we will have made our own geologic layer—consisting of a layer of plastic.But now a team of students and scientists from Yale have discovered Pestalotiopsis microspora, a mushroom that likes nothing better than to chow down on the stuff, that you can find in garden hoses, shoes, seats and more. -- source link
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