The bacteria “could be optimized and exploited to help get rid of plastics in the environment.”Bottom FeedersWe may have a way of literally eating away at our planet’s pollution crisis.As part of a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, researchers have shed additional light on a possibly game-changing bacteria that grows on common polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics, confirming that it can break down and eat the polymers that make up the waste.Scientists have long been interested in the plastic-decomposing abilities of the bacteria, Comamonas testosteroni. But…
